Katie Kozak and Lucien Durey

Katie Kozak is a queer artist of Métis and Ukrainian settler descent based in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.

She grew up in Denare Beach, Saskatchewan, Treaty 10 territory, and her ancestral roots are in the Métis communities of St. François Xavier, and Boggy Creek, Manitoba. Her visual art practice is centered around connectivity to Land, relationship, ritual and traces.

 

Lucien Durey is an artist, writer, and singer based in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. His practice engages with found objects, photographs, places, and sounds that form the basis for public projects, as well as artworks in mixed media, sculpture, and performance. 

 

Since 2012, we have worked together on durational projects that enact care for one another and gratitude toward the places and spaces in which the artworks are realized and

exhibited. The resulting artworks contemplate lineage, ancestry, queerness, sustainability, and healing within a context of reimagining place-based relations that serve the social and cultural landscape of our shared communities.

 

Image credit: Spots by Katie Kozak and Lucien Durey