“Encompassing a range of media, including paintings, drawings, sculpture, installation, video, and performance, this exhibition seeks to shed light on current geopolitical and environmental sustainability issues that inform artistic practices in these two vastly different, yet interconnected, regions.”
Exhibition: “Arctic/Amazon,” group exhibition (featuring artists Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Couzyn van Heuvelen, Máret Ánne Sara, Uýra, Olinda Reshijabe Silvano, Morzaniel Iramari, Leandro Lima & Gisela Motta, Pia Arke, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, and Outi Pieski), The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, October-December 2022.
Keywords: curatorial practice, exhibitions, art, contemporary, Arctic, circumpolar, Amazon, networks, global, Indigeneity, Indigenous, communities, worldwide, exchanges, affinities, interconnections, solidarity, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Couzyn van Heuvelen, Máret Ánne Sara, Uýra, Olinda Reshijabe Silvano, Morzaniel Iramari, Leandro Lima & Gisela Motta, Pia Arke, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, Outi Pieski, cultural, traditions, worldviews, diaspora, environment, ecology, sustainability, climate, change, degradation, destruction, colonization, settler-colonialism, contact, zones, crisis, politics, resistance, defiance, activism, resurgence, land, territory, geography, knowledge, paintings, drawings, sculpture, site-specific, installation, videos, photography, performance, handicrafts, Norway, Greenland, Denmark, Peru, Brazil, Venezuela, Finland, Alaska, United States, Iqaluit, Nunavut, Toronto, Ontarion, Canada
Image: Outi Pieski, Toni Hafkenscheid, The Power Plant