Michelle Sound | Holding It Together
Ceremonial / Art 3712 West 10 Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia V6R 2G4
Michelle Sound, "Kokum and Mosum," 2022
presentation bond paper, embroidery thread, seed beads, caribou tufting, vintage beads, dyed porcupine quills and metallic thread, 51.5" x 39" (courtesy the gallery)
Michelle Sound is a Cree and Métis artist, educator and mother. She is a member of Wapsewsipi Swan River First Nation in Northern Alberta. Her mother is Cree from Kinuso, Alberta, Treaty 8 territory and her father’s family is Métis from the Buffalo Lake Métis settlement in central Alberta. She was born and raised on the unceded and ancestral home territories of the xwmƏƟkwƏýƏm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and SƏĺílwƏtaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations where she currently resides and works.
Holding It Together is a monochrome photographic series depicting archival images of the artist and their home territory. The images torn by the atist but then put back together through traditional Indigenous practices such as beadwork, stitching, and caribou hair tufting.
The exhibition space exists and operates on the traditional and unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səl’ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.