Winnipeg Arts Council

reyv·payzaj | dream·scape: a solo exhibition by Robyn Adams

dream·scape is a solo exhibition by Red River Métis artist Robyn Adams. Based in Vancouver as an architectural designer, Adams invites viewers into an envisioned Métis landscape. Her work interlaces architectural and cultural processes, featuring 3D modeling, cyanotype plant documentation, floral beadwork, and ceremony from an Indigenous futurism lens. At its core, dream·scape immerses viewers in Michif ontology offering a perspective of Métis identity and connection to the land.

Robyn Adams is a Red River Métis citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation. Her Métis family is from la Rochelle and St. Pierre-Jolys, Manitoba. Currently a dual Master of Architecture and Landscape Architecture student at the University of British Columbia, living as a guest on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Sel̓íl̓witulh. She is a multidisciplinary artist working between Vancouver and her home territory in Winnipeg. Robyn enjoys fishing, medicine picking, beadwork, and making things with her hands. Robyn’s work synchronously exists in the ethos of Audre Lorde’s ‘quality of light,’ in which she interrogates relationship with the land and water through the intricate weaving of Indigenous histories, knowledge, ceremony, art and architecture. Robyn seeks to create architecture of poetic joy, alongside the matriarchs that have helped steward a sense of home for Indigenous communities through the dark times so that we may be able to forge paths into brighter futures.