When you browse through the Kamloops Art Gallery’s past exhibitions on its website, South Asian experiences and creativities have been nearly invisible until now. This despite the fact that South Asians have been settling in British Columbia since the early 1900s and Kamloops’ South Asian community has grown significantly since the 1970s. The community forms the largest visible minority in Canada, and in B.C., the only province to have elected a South Asian Premier – Ujjal Dosanjh, they are the second largest minority. With this in mind, the true achievement of the exhibition Re Present: Photography from South Asia then comes into clearer focus. The exhibition’s very existence in the B.C. interior boldly asserts that South Asian experiences deserve to be more fully explored in our publicly funded institutions, whether they be in Vancouver or Kamloops.
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