Exhibition
If we never met...
First Nation Canadian visual artists and performers
9 October 2016 - 12 February 2017
First Nation Canadian visual artists and performers alongside Māori and Pacific Island artists and performers.
First Nation Canadian visual artists and performers alongside Māori and Pacific Island artists and performers.
In a world where we find ourselves increasingly influenced by global trends and politics, the need to explore our own uniqueness and sense of self is increasingly important. For indigenous artists, this means acknowledging international networks of like-minded communities, while also asserting those characteristics that make our cultures unique.
If we never met brings together a group of First Nation Canadian visual artists and performers and places them alongside Māori and Pacific Island artists and performers from Aotearoa New Zealand. The exhibition looks at the similarities and disparities shared by this new generation of indigenous artists.
The project has been co-curated by Daina Warren, Director of the Urban Shaman Aboriginal Art Gallery in Winnipeg, Canada and Reuben Friend, Director of Pātaka Art + Museum, and will feature works by Sonny Assu, Jordan Bennett, Maria Hupfield, Geronimo Inutiq, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Amy Malbeuf, Kevin McKenzie, Julie Nagam, Theo Pelmus, Kristin Snowbird, Adrian Stimson and Charlene Vickers. These artist’s works will be placed in conversation alongside works by Ngahina Hohaia, James Ormsby, Wi Taepa, Le Moana and the SaVAge K’lub.
IMAGE: Sonny Assu Re-invaders, 2014. Digital intervention on an Emily Carr Painting (Indian Church, 1929). Courtesy of the artist
If we never met… is co-curated by the Urban Shaman Aboriginal Art Gallery Winnipeg, Canada, Pātaka Art + Museum in Porirua, NZ and supported by Canada Council for the Arts.
