Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival: Olga Korper Gallery, She Has Something to Say
May 1 – June 12, 2021
Two series by Ottawa-based Inuk artist Katherine Takpannie speak to the underlying social, economic, cultural, institutional, and historical causes contributing to the ongoing violence against and associated vulnerability of Indigenous communities. In Our Women and Girls are Sacred (2016–18), theatrical plumes of red smoke invoke the tragedy of murdered and missing Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people in Canada. The series All Eyes on Mi’Kma’Ki(MaMyriah) (2020) confronts inadequate governmental action regarding fundamental water rights.