Wilna and Tia Furstenberg. (Submitted/ Delaney Swystun)

By Nigel Maxwell

Arts

Mother-daughter duo team up for new exhibit

Mar 2, 2022 | 5:00 PM

A new exhibit at the Prince Albert Art Centre’s John. V. Hicks gallery represents a collaboration between a local mother and daughter.

The name of Wilna and Tia Furstenberg’s exhibition is Inner Latitude and it consists of eleven artworks that are a combination of oil paintings, acrylic paintings, and charcoal drawings. Wilna told paNOW it means a lot to her to be able to create something with her daughter.

“Just our love for art, our love for painting and being creative and just putting it up together is really special,” she said.

Explaining how creating this collaboration was something that she and her daughter have been wanting to do for a few years, Wilna acknowledged their styles are very different.

Describing her own style as “paintedly expressive,” using brighter colours and bigger formats, Wilna explained her daughter’s paint in this exhibit specifically is more muted and her paint strokes are more directional.

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“There’s so many overlapping themes in both our work and I think that’s what ties us together,” Wilna said.

A mother and daughter creative vision. (Submitted)

Furstenberg graduated with a bachelor’s degree (fine arts) in 1996 from the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Discovering her love for art in her later teen years, Tia in turn, graduated from University of Saskatchewan in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts.

“Our processes and styles are very different and distinct, but our work is tied together by the unseen and thematic: the relational bond between mother and daughter, and ideas regarding identity, home, and memory,” Tia said. “The reliance on photos, stories, continuing traditions, language, and family are what have kept our first home a part of our cultural identity.”

The Furstenberg’s are both first generation Canadians. Their 2005 immigration from South Africa to Canada is reflected in this body of work; the ripple effect of this life-changing decision and transition is still felt today and prevalent in both their artistic practices. Symbols of nature, various landscapes, and memories in these two countries overlap in each piece.

Latitude is an important concept; it is the angular distance of a place north or south of the earth’s equator, but when positioned inwardly, it can also be the distance between the head and heart.

The Furstenberg’s submitted a proposal for an exhibition more than a year ago to Markus Miller, Director and Curator of the Mann Art Gallery and once accepted. Tia applied for a microgrant though SK Arts. This grant funded all the supplies for the exhibition.

Wilna acknowledged she has two other daughters who are also creative, one has a passion for writing, and the other with make up and artistry.

“We all have our creative outlets just in different ways,” she said.

Inner Latitude ends March 25. The hours for the John V Hicks Gallery are weekdays: from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturdays 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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