Floor Opener | Kelowna Art Gallery

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Lets’lo:tseltun is one of Canada’s most outspoken and influential contemporary artists, confronting colonial suppression, environmental degradation, and the ongoing struggles for Indigenous sovereignty. Of Cowichan (Hul’q’umi’num Coast Salish) and Okanagan (Syilx) descent, his forty-year practice brings together traditional iconography, fearless critique, and biting satire to challenge and unsettle. Floor Opener presents a selection of works that are at once polemical and playful, imbued with a spiritual resonance that speaks urgently to the political and social realities of our time. This nationally significant exhibition is organized and circulated by the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, with artwork sourced from private collections in British Columbia.