On view April 14, 2024
Art has the unique ability to help us grasp complex concepts like intersectionality. Diverse art-making practices can translate different experiences, different identities, and the intersections between them. Art serves as a powerful tool to imagine new ways of overcoming systems of oppression, celebrating the diversity and inclusion of groups that have historically been marginalized on the basis of race, nationality, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression, indigeneity, language, and settler colonialism among others.
This exhibition represents a breadth of print practices in Canada with works that represent, among others, the diverse voices of women and Indigenous artists, whose stories, identities and experiences have been erased and silenced in society. Produced during periods of rapid social, political, and environmental change, these works speak to the diverse creative strategies through which communities in Canada have fought for inclusion, diversity, gender equality, cultural recognition, environmental causes, and social progress. Pushing the boundaries of print media, these artists ask their audiences to broaden their conceptions of what is creatively possible. Daphe Odjig’s Thunderbird Woman perfectly encapsulates these themes, working at the intersections of art and identity, tradition and innovation, humanity and nature.
The Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States (OAS) exhibits, collects, studies and conserves modern and contemporary art of the Americas in order to promote cultural exchange to advance democracy, human rights, multidimensional security, and integral development. Canada is represented at the OAS by the Permanent Mission of Canada to the OAS, whose role is to advance the Canadian government’s objectives and interests, and to work with hemispheric partners through the organization.
This exhibition is curated by Pansee Atta. Atta is an Egyptian-Canadian visual artist, curator, and researcher.
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