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FOR   IMMEDIATE   RELEASE: OXYGEN PRESENTS EXHIBITION BY NELSON PRINTMAKER MARCUS DENOMME IN O2 WINDOW SPACE

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Why?

Marcus Dénommé

9 February – 3 April 2024

O2 window exhibition space (Stanley and Baker St. on Nelson Trading Co. building)

Oxygen Art Centre is excited to present the installation entitled, “Why?” by Nelson printmaker Marcus Dénommé. The third exhibition in their O2 window exhibition space, located along the Stanley St. side of the Nelson Trading Co. building, will be on view from February 9, 2024, to April 3, 2024.

The new artwork by Dénommé is a mixed media silkscreen print/collage on stretched kitakata paper. The artist connects the installation with the colonial genocide in Gaza and is specifically inspired by the organization Unmute Gaza who works to amplify the images and writing by journalists attempting to report on the violence.

Unmute Gaza is working to amplify documentation of what is going on in Gaza by creating artworks from the pictures made by journalists experiencing the violence that began on October 7, 2024. The organization then wheat pastes them across their cities in a small gesture to say “WE DO NOT AGREE, WE ARE NOT COMPLICIT, WE ARE NOT LOOKING AWAY. So we print and paste. Print and paste.”

Alongside the installation, Dénommé shares his own personal wheatpaste recipe:


Mix 3tbsp white flour with 10tbsp water until fully combined. Add 1 cup of boiling water to the mixture, and move to medium heat on the stovetop. Mix vigorously until boiling. Remove from heat and let cool.


**Adding acrylic medium, wood glue, white sugar, and/or vinegar will improve the durability of the wheatpaste.

The O2 installation, “Why?” by Marcus Dénommé, on view from February 9, 2024, to April 3, 2024, draws on the activism by organizations such as Unmute Gaza that stand in solidarity with the Palestinian cause and work to dismantle the ideological and institutional scaffolding of Israel’s regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid against the Palestinian people.

O2 is a window exhibition space located in downtown Nelson, B.C. It is an extension of Oxygen Art Centre and serves as an alternative exhibition space for regional, emerging artists.

For more information about the artist, the installation, and O2, visit Oxygen’s website www.oxygenartcentre.org.

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Image Credit: Marcus Dénommé, Headshot, Photo credit Julia Pepler, 2023; Courtesy the Artist

Press Contact:

Julia Prudhomme

Executive Director

Oxygen Art Centre

info@oxygenartcentre.org

250-551-6329

Artist Bio:

Marcus Dénommé was born and raised on Algonquin Temiskaming first nations territory in ontario, canada. At a young age they began to explore street art and artistic interventions on public and private property. Throughout the years, they grew a deep passion for the intersection of art and activism such as civil disobedience, direct action, community level organisation, etc. Dénommé honed their craft as communications designer at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where they discovered traditional printmaking and bookmaking practices. Although their practice includes a variety of disciplines including painting, sculpture, perhaps their favourite activity is tabling at artist book fairs. Dénommé is the editor of the Veins & Arterys publications,and now calls home to unceded Sinixt territory.

Julia Prudhomme (she/her)

Executive Director / oxygen art centre

info@oxygenartcentre.org

www.oxygenartcentre.org

#3 – 320 Vernon St. Alley Entrance

Nelson, British Columbia , V1L 4E4

Tel: 250 551 6329

Oxygen Art Centre acknowledges with gratitude that we are located on the tum xula7xw/ traditional territory of the sn̓ʕay̓ckstx/the Sinixt People. As uninvited guests we honour their ongoing presence on this land. We recognize that the Sylix, Ktuxana, and Yaqan Nukij Lower Kootenay Band peoples are also connected with this land, as are Métis and many diverse Indigenous persons.

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