题 目：Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map / 杰恩·史密斯：记忆地图

作 者：Laura Phipps

出 版：Whitney Museum of American Art ，2023

装 帧：精装，264页

尺 寸：25.4*29.7 cm

开创性原住民艺术家琼·奎克图西·史密斯五十年的艺术生涯

琼·奎克图西·史密斯（生于1940年）在其作为艺术家、活动家和教育工作者的整个职业生涯中，创造了一种既个性化又易于理解的视觉语言，用以探讨环境破坏、战争、种族灭绝以及对历史的误读。作为联邦萨利希和库特内民族的一名注册萨利希成员，史密斯巧妙地将抽象、新表现主义和流行艺术的元素与原住民艺术传统相结合，颠覆了人们对历史叙事的普遍认知，并揭示了主流文化形成中的荒谬之处。她的素描、版画、油画和雕塑跨越了各类艺术范畴，质疑为何某些视觉语言能够获得认可、历史特权和价值，这反映了她“毕生的工作在于审视美国的当代生活，并通过原住民意识形态对其进行解读”的信念。土地在史密斯的作品和思想中同样占据核心地位，她强调原住民一直以来都是土地的一部分：“这些是我的故事，每一幅画、每一张素描都在讲述一个故事。我创作的是记忆地图。”本书展示了史密斯近五十年来在各种媒介上的作品，并附有当代原住民艺术家和学者就史密斯各主要作品系列撰写的文章和短文。

Five decades of work by groundbreaking Indigenous artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

Throughout her career as artist, activist, and educator, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (b. 1940) has forged a personal yet accessible visual language she uses to address environmental destruction, war, genocide, and the misreading of the past. An enrolled Salish member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, Smith cleverly deploys elements of abstraction, neo-expressionism, and pop, fusing them with Indigenous artistic traditions to upend commonly held conceptions of historical narratives and illuminate absurdities in the formation of dominant culture. Her drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures blur categories and question why certain visual languages attain recognition, historical privilege, and value, reflecting her belief that her “life’s work involves examining contemporary life in America and interpreting it through Native ideology.”  Also central to Smith’s work and thinking is the land and she emphasizes that Native people have always been part of the land: “These are my stories, every picture, every drawing is telling a story. I create memory maps.” The publication illustrates nearly five decades of Smith’s work in all media, accompanied by essays and short texts by contemporary Indigenous artists and scholars on each of Smith’s major bodies of work.

Distributed for Whitney Museum of American Art 

Exhibition Schedule:

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

April 19–August 13, 2023

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

October 15, 2023–January 7, 2024

Seattle Art Museum

February 15–May 12, 2024