When our eyes touch invites visitors to look again at Catharine and Peter Whyte’s portraits, relationships, and legacy. Through archival research, community engagement, and close attention to portraiture, the exhibition explores intimacy, agency, colonial context, and the humanity behind familiar stories of The Whyte’s founders.
The idea of this cohort being in relation with one another, through nationhood, artistic process, locality, kinship, or experience, is embedded in this exhibition and in Indigenous curation as a discipline. In contrast to Western art spaces, where artists, curators, museum teams, mentors, and communities occupy separate roles, the IAM Project fosters relationality, connection, and support interwoven within the entire project network.
