A gentle reassembly, 2022
A gentle reassembly, 2022
Performance installation (pine reclaimed from the Ottawa River) To accompany Woman’s Beaded Hood, c. 1850, once-known Eeyouch Artist. Rehearsal view with Ivanie Aubin-Malo and Laura Ortman.
Through her choreography and visual arts practice, Lukin Linklater speaks to the dispossession of Indigenous ancestral and cultural belongings as she visits museum collections. Working with this Eeyouch hood, she reminds us of the garment’s intimate role in contemporary Indigenous life across time and space. The hood’s connection to women’s bodies, the associated practice of making and wearing them, and the artist’s Omaskeko Cree familial connections contribute to a layered, affective and conceptual response that accompanies the hood. - National Gallery of Canada.
Photo: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. A commission for National Gallery of Canada.