The Glenbow art and history museum in Calgary will put Inuit textile crafts on display in an exhibit called Dynamic Connections: Threads of Living Memory.
The thrust of the exhibit, which opens Feb. 22 and runs for a year, is pieces that represent living or active memory, whether SA国际影视传媒渓iteral, abstract, simply tactile or full of symbolism,SA国际影视传媒 according to information provided by curator Joanne Schmidt.
Among the highlights will be natural dye collages from Taloyoak, of which only 24 were created, natural dye animals, a natural dye cape fashioned by Taloyoak's Selena Tucktoo and macram茅 pieces hung on caribou antler supports.
SA国际影视传媒淐hosen works act as connecting threads to both the familiar and that which is yet to come and are meant to evoke memory in the viewers,SA国际影视传媒 Schmidt's overview reads. SA国际影视传媒淭his exhibit explores object memories, and the way in which each thread, each fibre, contains a hint of the pastSA国际影视传媒 of hands once manipulating them, of smells of the land, and in some cases a trail of hands which were all connected to them before their arrival in the exhibit space.SA国际影视传媒
Artists' or their relatives' recollections of their work is included, wherever possible, to give added insight.