Kimowan Metchewais - a kind of prayer
A Kind of Prayer presents the first-ever survey dedicated to the late Cree artist Kimowan Metchewais and his singular body of work on Indigenous identity, community, and colonial memory. After his untimely death at age forty-eight in 2011, Metchewais left behind a wholly original and expansive body...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY
Aperture
2022
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | A Kind of Prayer presents the first-ever survey dedicated to the late Cree artist Kimowan Metchewais and his singular body of work on Indigenous identity, community, and colonial memory. After his untimely death at age forty-eight in 2011, Metchewais left behind a wholly original and expansive body of photographic and mixed-media work. At the center of his practice is an extensive Polaroid archive, which addresses a range of themes--including the artist's body, performative self-portraiture, language, landscapes, and everyday subjects--and served as the source material for works in other media, such as painting and collage. Metchewais's exquisitely layered works offer a poetic meditation on his connection to home and land, while challenging conventional narratives and representations of Indigeneity |
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| Beschreibung: | Verantwortlichkeitsangabe von der Buchbanderole |
| Beschreibung: | 267 Seiten 28 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781597115322 978-1-59711-532-2 1597115320 1-59711-532-0 |