5centsapound:Annie Pootoogook chronicles the realities of contemporary Inuit lifePootoogook’s detail
5centsapound:Annie Pootoogook chronicles the realities of contemporary Inuit lifePootoogook’s detailed work describes everyday life in her home community of Cape Dorset, Nunavut. Her scenes of Inuit traditions include the less romantic but real integration of modern technologies such as video games and televisions as well as domestic abuse and tragedy. Her method, carefully outlined shapes in black filled with blocks of solid color, recalls traditional Inuit drawing while the subject matter reflects the unvarnished viewpoint of her generation. Other drawings are more personal and abstract, illustrating an emotional landscape of mental anguish, such as “Sadness and Relief for My Brother,” and the austere but compelling, still life of the artist’s prescription- medicine bottle, cup and a single dangling key in “Composition (Annie’s Tylenol).” Cheerful domestic scenes such as a family opening Christmas presents (“Christmas”) are depicted with the same precision and calm attention to detail as the emotion-laden composition “Memory of My Life: Breaking Bottles.” qtd from boingboingVery sad to hear that Pootoogook was found dead in Ottawa on Sept 19. The cause is still under investigation - and unfortunately the track record for police in Canada investing any time into investigating missing or murdered indigenous women, is horrendously poor.Her loss is great. Her drawings offered a contemporary insight into her culture, where old customs intermingled with modern technology, and the reality of daily life and hardships were not glossed over or ignored.Her work is part of the collections at the National Gallery of Canada and the Ontario Gallery of Art and was recently part of an exhibition on Indigenous pop art at Ottawa’s Saw Gallery.read more via NativeNews -- source link
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