The Last Act of AGA’s Centennial Trilogy Traces the Past and Future
Words to Worldmaking, the final show in the AGA’s birthday trilogy, reflects on how we connect — through language, labour and ordinary life
Like most milestone celebrations, Act 3: Words to Worldmaking, currently on view at the Art Gallery of Alberta, is an exhibition that looks both to the past and the future. It’s the third and final act in a trilogy celebrating the gallery’s hundredth birthday, which took place in 2024, and like Act 1: Earth to Eternity and Act 2: Landscape to Land Use, the third exhibition is comprised of works by Alberta artists currently held in the gallery’s collection.
As the show’s title suggests, text plays an important role in Words to Worldmaking. Many of the works feature words, written, signed or spoken. But the curators were also interested in broader modes of communication — how we interact, express ourselves, come together, fall apart.
