My Bones Are Funny, Sometimes They Ache- Jake Kimble
Jake Kimble is a multidisciplinary Chipewyan (Dënesųłıné) artist and curator from Treaty 8 territory in the Northwest Territories whose practice revolves around acts of self-care, self-repair, and gender-based ideological refusal. Using humour as a tool, Kimble excavates themes of existentialism, narcissism, and the strange, offering an invitation to the audience to examine the absurdities that exist within the everyday so that they too may exhale, unclench, and even chuckle in the spaces where laughter is often lost.
Kimble's solo exhibition My Bones Are Funny, Sometimes They Ache presents the breakout artist's recent works, including video, paper towel prints, self-portraits, and beadwork. The phrase "ache in one's bones" carries themes of humour and grief, as well as youth and age. The exhibition title captures this doubleness: the funny bone, known for laughter and pain, also points to the aching bone, a reminder of time passing and the certainty of change. At thirty-one, often seen as the edge of adulthood, Kimble reflects on how the past stays in the body like a dull ache: memories of childhood, the intensity of one's twenties, and the quiet moments of self-reflection.
This publication features essays from Emma Hassencahl-Perley (Curator of Indigenous Art at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery) and Kelly McKenzie (Curator at TD Corporate Art Collection).
Jake Kimble is a multidisciplinary Chipewyan (Dënesųłıné) artist and curator from Treaty 8 territory in the Northwest Territories whose practice revolves around acts of self-care, self-repair, and gender-based ideological refusal. Using humour as a tool, Kimble excavates themes of existentialism, narcissism, and the strange, offering an invitation to the audience to examine the absurdities that exist within the everyday so that they too may exhale, unclench, and even chuckle in the spaces where laughter is often lost.
Kimble's solo exhibition My Bones Are Funny, Sometimes They Ache presents the breakout artist's recent works, including video, paper towel prints, self-portraits, and beadwork. The phrase "ache in one's bones" carries themes of humour and grief, as well as youth and age. The exhibition title captures this doubleness: the funny bone, known for laughter and pain, also points to the aching bone, a reminder of time passing and the certainty of change. At thirty-one, often seen as the edge of adulthood, Kimble reflects on how the past stays in the body like a dull ache: memories of childhood, the intensity of one's twenties, and the quiet moments of self-reflection.
This publication features essays from Emma Hassencahl-Perley (Curator of Indigenous Art at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery) and Kelly McKenzie (Curator at TD Corporate Art Collection).