When Is Future? When Is Now? / Wolf Babe Collective

When Is Future? When Is Now? / Wolf Babe Collective
September 25 – December 11, 2026
PAVED Arts, 424 20th St. W. Saskatoon

Curated by the Wold Babe Collective: Joi T. Arcand, Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow, Danielle Printup, Tanis Worme

Featured Artists: Theo Cuthand, Melissa General, Tanya Lukin Linklater, and Chris Morin

Opening Reception: Friday, September 25, 7–9:30 pm
Panel Discussion with the Wolf Babe Collective: Saturday, September 26, 3–4 pm

When Is Future? When Is Now? is an immersive exhibition of Indigenous media art curated by the Wolf Babe Collective, bringing together selected works from the Indigenous Art Centre collection at Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) alongside a newly commissioned window installation by Theo Cuthand and Saskatoon-based artist Chris Morin. Originally developed for Gallery 101 in Ottawa as part of the 13th annual Asinabka Film and Media Arts Festival, the exhibition comes to PAVED Arts in an expanded Saskatchewan presentation featuring nationally recognized Indigenous artists Theo Cuthand, Melissa General, Tanya Lukin Linklater, and Chris Morin.

Inspired by the familiar experience of visiting a neighbourhood video store and gathering in an auntie’s living room, the exhibition reimagines the gallery as a place of comfort, memory, and encounter. Through moving image, installation, and participatory environments, visitors are encouraged to engage with the work through sight, sound, touch, and conversation.

Centering Indigenous self-representation, the exhibition highlights diverse artistic voices while creating space for intergenerational exchange, storytelling, and community gathering. In Saskatoon, the project is further expanded through public programming, including an opening reception, a panel discussion with members of the Wolf Babe Collective, and opportunities for dialogue around contemporary Indigenous media art.

Curated by Joi T. Arcand, Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow, Danielle Printup, and Tanis Worme, When Is Future? When Is Now? reflects the collective’s commitment to reciprocity, relationship, and care while celebrating the vitality of Indigenous filmmaking and time-based media today.

Bio

Wolf Babe is a collective of First Nations women and non-binary artists and curators, who recognize and work through the complexities of shared connections to the region we currently call home at the confluence of Kichi-Sìbì (Ottawa River) and Pasapkedjinawong (Rideau River), and our respective ancestral lands. We each carry knowledge arising out of our individual practices, our bonds to our First Nations communities, and the intergenerational ties long forged between our families.

We bring together our individual areas of interest and expertise in architecture, curatorial practice, public art, design, and research. Our collective centers notions of reciprocity, relationship and community, and gestures towards the subtle, the soft, the tender and quiet and discerns the extraordinary in the everyday. Our interests lie in the permeability between worlds, realms and multiple temporalities and the textured relations between persons and the animate landscape.

The global pandemic fostered a space for us to continue to build a support system within and through each other. Our practice is informed by dialogical processes and methodologies of visiting, and centers conversation and ethics of care and consent.

Wolf Babe tells stories, spills tea, shares food, laughs, resists, creates, celebrates, loves, and conspires to build a rounder and more just world.

When Is Future? When Is Now? / Wolf Babe Collective

Photo by Shelby Lisk.