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Title: Kimowan Metchewais: A Kind of Prayer
Author: Kimowan Metchewais
ISBN: 9781597115322
Publisher: Aperture
Published: 2023
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition Note: New from the publisher
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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-eight 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, -published, and -exhibited. A Kind of Prayer is a comprehensive overview that showcases this essential artist’s astonishing vision.
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