{"id":74164,"date":"2018-03-28T23:16:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T23:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baca.ca\/exhibitions\/culture-shift\/la-guilde\/"},"modified":"2018-04-01T15:29:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T15:29:33","slug":"culture-shift-la-guilde","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.baca.ca\/en\/exhibitions\/culture-shift-la-guilde\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture Shift : La Guilde"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]April 29 \u2013 June 18, 2016<br \/>\nOpening reception: Friday, April 29th from 6-8pm<br \/>\nContemporary Native Art Biennial, 3rd edition<br \/>\n<em>Culture Shift \u2013 Challenging Identity<\/em><br \/>\nCurator: Karine Gaucher<br \/>\nLa Guilde<br \/>\n1356, rue Sherbrooke Ouest<br \/>\nMontreal (QC)<\/p>\n<p>GROENLAND \/ GREENLAND : Bolatta Silis-H\u00f8egh (Inuit)<br \/>\nNUNAVUT : Shuvinai Ashoona (Inuit), Ningeosiaq Ashoona (Inuit), Qavavau Manumie (Inuit), Ohotaq Mikkigak (Inuit), Jamasie Pitseolak (Inuit), Tapaungai Qatsiya (Inuit), Nicotye Samayualie (Inuit), Toonoo Sharky (Inuit), Ningeokuluk Teevee (Inuit), Jutai Toonoo (Inuit), Samonie Toonoo (Inuit).<br \/>\nQU\u00c9BEC : Geronimo Inutiq (Inuit) (originaire du \/ from Nunavut)<\/p>\n<p>Text by Karine Gaucher<br \/>\nEditing and translation by Stefan Sobanski<\/p>\n<p>Inuit identity is often represented through nordicity, a common belief system and a lifestyle focusing on the past, frozen in time. This idea is, however, becoming less and less resonant in today\u2019s reality. Identity being a construction, it continually transforms itself in parallel with individuals\u2019 and communities\u2019 evolution. Yet, from the second half of the twentieth century moving forward, several successive notable changes have occurred and have profoundly transformed the Inuit community and their artistic productions, owing in particular to a major form of identity-based questioning.<\/p>\n<p>In the \u201890s, borders between North and South progressively disappeared with the emergence of new information and communication technologies, with among others wireless telephony and the Internet. Consequence of globalization, Inuit artists\u2019 pictorial choices are based on a renewed hybrid identity, are simultaneously rooted in tradition and resolutely forward-thinking. This hybridity is omnipresent in the works of the thirteen artists taking part in the Culture Shift: Challenging Identity exhibition, which gathers artists from Nunavik, Nunavut and Greenland: Ningeosiaq Ashooona, Shuvinai Ashoona, Bolatta Silis-H\u00f8egh, Geronimo Inutiq, Qavavau Manumie, Ohotaq Mikkigak, Jamasee Padluq Pitseolak, Tapaungai Qatsiya, Nicotye Samayualie, Toonoo Sharky, Ningeokuluk Teevee, Jutai Toonoo and Samonie Toonoo.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the works presented in this exhibition questions, in its own way, traditional schemas of representation, thus challenging identity at the same time. For example, Jutai Toonoo uses traditional materials to express a scathing critique of assimilation policies that were implemented as of the \u201840s by the federal government, policies which eventually lead to acculturation. Lucky Man by Qavavau Manumie also depicts another consequence resulting from the enforcement of these policies: Canadian Inuit communities\u2019 economic dependence on the government. Such policies alter their identity by tampering with it and perniciously erase the millennial livelihood system to which they are accustomed. This reflection is equally found in the Seal Meat series in which the Greenlandic artist Bolatta Silis-H\u00f8egh portrays animal viscera with an abstract painterly treatment and in which the tableau becomes a representation of its own cultural hybridity. In the same manner, media artist Geronimo Inutiq collects creative samplings, a technique similar to collage, so as to criticize the colonialist image so often conveyed in society. By appropriating archival images of a stereotypical North and juxtaposing them to images that better reflect reality, he carries out a semantic diversion and calls for a redefinition of identity through a hybrid representation of nordicity.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, the artwork, more personal and free-spirited, remains, at least formally speaking, strongly attached to traditional Inuit art. So, since culture plays a fundamental role in peoples\u2019 acknowledgment of self-identity, the artworks become, in a perpetually evolving Arctic region, the voice expressing this dual identity, located somewhere between tradition and modernity, past and future, between stereotypes and reality.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_gallery el_id=&#8221;gallery-131129&#8243; medias=&#8221;74517,74519,74521,74523,74525,74527,74529,74531,74533,74535,74537,74539,74541,74544,74546&#8243; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; screen_lg=&#8221;1000&#8243; screen_md=&#8221;600&#8243; screen_sm=&#8221;480&#8243; single_overlay_opacity=&#8221;50&#8243; single_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; lbox_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]April 29 \u2013 June 18, 2016 Opening reception: Friday, April 29th from 6-8pm Contemporary Native Art 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