na dadaanan / that will be passed through
BADLANDS ART DEPARTMENT
PO Box 275
Drumheller, AB
T0J 0Y0
Vernissage: SATURDAY, July 26, 2025 at 12:00 pm
Exhibition Run: July 26 – August 23, 2025 (by appointment)
PHOTOS BY: Miruna Dragan
Badlands Art Department is pleased to present a site-responsive installation by artist-in-residence Kuh Del Rosario. Del Rosario’s practice is rooted in an intuitive engagement with everyday materials, transforming found debris into alchemic dialogues that explore time and place through reciprocal processes and tricky collaborations. Kuh’s work cultivates a sensitivity to evolving ecosystems, as it is informed by her early disconnection from her homeland of the Philippines, and her subsequent diasporic experience. Referred to as Mauvaises terres à traverser by French explorers, and as inferred by the exhibition’s Tagalog title, the badlands are layered and marked by erosion and perseverance. Approaching the work as a tributary to the land, the artist moves through gestures of gathering, making, and witnessing with materials found on-site, her processes attuned to the textures, rhythms, and assertions of the landscape.
Badlands Art Department is an independent and multifaceted artist residency, studio, and press located alongside the Rosebud River on Blackfoot territory, in a rugged valley of Drumheller, Alberta. B.A.D. is organized by artists Miruna Dragan and Jason de Haan. As part of our activities here, we invite artists to research and respond to the various conditions of this complex site and we foster events and activities that take place on, or about, this land. We are committed to creating opportunities for exchange between artists, writers, elders, scholars, scientists, ecologists, and any others that are committed to teaching about, learning from, or contributing to this place.
https://www.badlandsartdepartment.com