书名：Kimowan Metchewais: A Kind of Prayer / 基莫万·梅切韦斯：某种祈祷
定价：520.0
ISBN：9781597115322
作者：Kimowan Metchewais
版次：1
出版时间：2023-01

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题 目：Kimowan Metchewais: A Kind of Prayer / 基莫万·梅切韦斯：某种祈祷

作 者：Kimowan Metchewais

出 版：Aperture，2023

装 帧：精装，268页

语种： 英语

尺 寸：19.6*26.8 cm

 

 

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-seven 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.

 

Metchewais was a contemporary artist of stunning originality, and until now, his work has been woefully understudied and underexposed. A Kind of Prayer is a comprehensive overview that showcases this essential artist’s astonishing vision.