Joi T. Arcand: she used to want to be a ballerina
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Kenderdine Art Gallery 51 Campus Dr, 2nd level, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5A8
Joi T. Arcand, "ᐁᑳᐏᔭ ᓀᐯᐏᓯ (ēkawiya nēwēpisi)," 2017
neon channel sign, 120cm x 182cm x 25cm. Collection of Seneca College. Photo: SBC,Gallery, Montreal.
JOI T. ARCAND: she used to want to be a ballerina
curator, Leah Taylor
ARTIST TALK / TOUR FRIDAY, MAY 24 AT 7:00PM
OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY, MAY 24 AT 7:30PM
Joi T. Arcand is an artist from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in central Saskatchewan (Treaty 6 Territory), currently based in Ottawa. Her early work in photography and digital collage images was informed by her interest in graphic and typographic arts. Arcand’s practice imagined what an Indigenized public space could be, by rendering streetscapes and communities with typographic inclusions of nehiyawēwin, or Plains Cree language. Her work has evolved to place site-specific neon signage in Cree syllabics throughout the interiors and exteriors of buildings.