Rebecca Belmore: Facing the Monumental
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REMAI MODERN 102 Spadina Crescent E, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7K 0L3
Toni Hafkenscheid toni@thphotos.com
Rebecca Belmore, "sister," 2010
colour inkjet on transparencies, 213.4 x 365.8 cm (overall). Courtesy of the artist. © Rebecca Belmore
Rebecca Belmore is one of the most important contemporary artists working along the border of art and politics today. Her poetic and beautiful works respond to the pressing issues of our time, including water and land rights, women’s lives and dignity, violence against Indigenous people by the state and police, and the role of the artist in contemporary life.
Rebecca Belmore: Facing the Monumental, organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario, surveys Belmore’s more than 30-year career and includes sculptures, installations, photographs, and performance-based works, as well as new works. Remai Modern is pleased to have lent a significant work from its collection to the exhibition, the large-scale textile installation blood on the snow (2002).
Belmore’s diverse yet cohesive body of work has voiced an ethos of remembering the forgotten, listening to the marginal, speaking the silenced, and facing the monumental with passion, beauty, intuition, strength and humility.
The exhibition is organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario and curated by Wanda Nanibush, Curator, Indigenous Art. Remai Modern's presentation of the exhibition is organized by Rose Bouthillier, Curator (Exhibitions).