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Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity

Institution
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
Grant Cycle
Spring 2019
Amount
$100,000
Type of Grant
Exhibition Support
Website
www.thepowerplant.org/Exhibitions/2022/Fall-2022/Arctic-Amazon ↗
Uýra, Série Retomada – FLORESCER, 2021. Photo: Matheus Belém.
Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity, with works by Uýra. Photo: Henry Chan
Birit Haarla, Katja Haarla, and Outi Pieski, Guhte gullá – Here to Hear, 2021. Multi-channel video installation. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Mauri Lähdesmäki.
Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity, with works by Sonya Kelliher-Combs. Photo: Henry Chan
Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Red, White, and Blue, Small Secrets, 2022. Cotton fabric, human hair, glass beads, nylon thread, steel pins. Courtesy the artist. Installation view: Arctic/Amazon: Neworks of Global Indigeneity, The Power Plant, Toronto, 2022. Photo: Henry Chan
Olinda Silvano, kené art, 2019–20. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Rodolfo Arrascue.
Olinda Reshinjabe Silvano, Wilma Maynas, and Ronin Koshi, Kené paintings, 2022. Acrylic on canvas. Commissioned by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, 2022. Installation view: Arctic/Amazon: Neworks of Global Indigeneity, The Power Plant, Toronto, 2022. Photo: Henry Chan
Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, Kamie ya uriji pi jami Parawa ujame theperekui uriji ter- imi thepe komi kua [Where I live in my jungle and in the Orinoco river all these animals also live], 2018. Acrylic on 79 sheets of cane fibre paper, 35 x 51 cm each. Courtesy Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.
Couzyn van Heuvelen, Qamutiik, 2019. Soapstone sled, rope. Courtesy the artist. Installation view: Arctic/Amazon: Neworks of Global Indigeneity, The Power Plant, Toronto, 2022. Photo: Henry Chan
Leandro Lima and Gisela Motta, still from Xapiri, 2012. Video, 56:00. Courtesy the artists.

Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity explores the ways in which Indigenous contemporary artists ​and collaborators take on issues of climate change, globalized Indigeneity, and contact zones in and about the Arctic and the Amazon during a time of crisis. The featured artists have their origins or are connected to these places, and their works embody a politics of resistance, resurgence, and ways of knowing and being in relation to the lands that are the source of their knowledge and creativity.

A constellation of new and past works by artists Pia Arke (Greenland/Denmark), Sonya Kelliher-Combs (United States), Tanya Lukin Linklater (United States/Canada), Couzyn van Heuvelen (Canada), Máret Ánne Sara (Norway) and Cecilia Vicuña (Chile), Uýra (Indigenous in diaspora), Olinda Reshinjabe Silvano, Wilma Maynas and Ronin Koshi (Peru), Morzaniel Iramari (Brazil), Leandro Lima & Gisela Motta (Brazil), Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe (Venezuela), and Biret and Gáddjá Haarla Pieski, Outi Pieski (Finland) will be featured in Arctic/Amazon. Encompassing a range of media, including paintings, drawings, sculpture, installation, video, and performance, this exhibition seeks to shed light on current geopolitical and environmental sustainability issues that inform artistic practices in these two vastly different, yet interconnected, regions.

1964

Philip Johnson commissioned Warhol to make a large-scale work for the exterior for his pavilion for the New York World’s Fair, along with other artists. Warhol’s provocative response, a multiple portrait of ‘Most Wanted Men’ was installed a few days before the opening but was deemed too inflammatory and contrary to the upbeat image of the World’s Fair and the work was taken down.

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