Vigil: The Land Remembers (Performance stills) 2020. #2
Vigil: The Land Remembers (Performance stills) 2020. #2
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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Julia Rose Sutherland is a Mi’kmaq (Metepenagiag Nation) / settler artist and educator (Assistant Professor at OCADU) based out of Tkaronto (Toronto, Canada). Sutherland’s interdisciplinary art practice employs photography, sculpture, textiles, and performance.
Vigil is a large-format printed work from a performance series titled "Vigil: The Land Remembers" where Julia Rose Sutherland hosts interventions of giving remembrance, gratitude, and awareness to the public about the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous women in North America. She invited the public to join in her smudging, giving thanks, and open discussions about these important subjects. Instead of functioning as a lecture space, Sutherland wanted to foster a respectful memorial and honest, open, and genuine discussion platform. Most importantly, it is a space to respect and homage to these women.
The work shown is part of documentation still from Sutherland's performance piece, 'Vigil: The Land Remembers', which was part of K Art's newest exhibition, Brought to Light. Sutherland performed this piece at Silo City in Buffalo, NY, to raise public awareness on the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women in North America.
This ongoing performance series consists of Sutherland pouring 155 pounds of cement (an adult woman's average weight in Canada) into a hole/dip in the landscape that had collected water. She was interested in using the natural landscape, and in this documentation, it existed at Silo City in Buffalo, NY. Using this puddle now reformed into a new form. She wanted it to resemble an unmarked gravesite.
Sutherland invited the public to join in her smudging, giving thanks, and open discussions about these important subjects. Instead of functioning as a lecture space, Sutherland wanted to foster a respectful memorial and honest, open, and genuine discussion platform. Most importantly, it is a space to respect and homage to these women.
Epson: Ultrachrome Pigment Inks on Lexjet Archival Matte Paper. 26X 38 " White frame optional. There are several in the series that can be hung together.