Artist Talk: Jaime Black - the REDress Project
Saturday October 24, 2015  2pm - 3:30pm (1 Hour 30 Minutes)
Lecture / Seminar

 artgallery@acadiau.ca
 902-585-1373

Join artist Jaime Black for a walk-through and discussion of her installation: the REDress Project.

The large-scale installation is comprised of collected red dresses and calls attention to missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada.

As the artist describes: “Through my ongoing installation, The REDress Project, I have placed the absence of the body as central to the work. This work involves empty red dresses installed ‘floating’ in public space as a spectral reminder of the hundreds of murdered or disappeared Aboriginal women across Canada. This installation piece attempts to situate the Indigenous female body as a contested entity and the specific target of colonial violence while reclaiming space for Indigenous female bodies.”

Jaime Black is a multidisciplinary artist of mixed Anishnaabe/Cree and European descent whose work explores themes of gender, identity, place and resistance through installation, photography and performance. Black’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and is currently on display at The Canadian Museum For Human Rights.

Established in 1978, the Acadia University Art Gallery offers a year-round programme of exhibitions and outreach events that promote engaged publics and encourage visual literacy. We would like to thank Arts Nova Scotia for their support of this project.

The exhibition will be on view from September 16 – November 29, 2015
Pricing & Tickets
Pricing: Free
Poster
Beveridge Arts Centre
10 Highland Avenue
Wolfville, Nova Scotia

 artgallery@acadiau.ca
 902-585-1373

       

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