Ruptures in Arrival: Art in the Wake of the Komagata Maru, to Jun 15

The Komagata Maru was a Japanese steamship that sailed to Vancouver in 1914, carrying 376 passengers from Punjab, India. Only 20 passengers were allowed to land, and the ship was forced to return to India. Marking the 100th anniversary of the Komagata Maru episode, this exhibition brings together for the first time a cross-section of visual art related to this history, and presents it alongside art that addresses more recent histories of mass migration from Asia to Canada’s West Coast. Ten artists contribute works — in a wide range of media including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, 3D film, and installation art — that explore fact and fiction, history’s relationship to memory, and mass media’s affects on personal experience, through narratives of transpacific mass migration.