Death Boat and other Stories: The Kampelmacher Memorial Collection of Indigenous Art
📅 Fri, Jul 18, 10 AM – Sun, May 2, 9 PM
3475 Albert Street, Regina, SK, Canada, Saskatchewan S4S 6X6
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Experience Exhibitions Death Boat and other Stories: The Kampelmacher Memorial Collection of Indigenous Art Roger Aksadjuak, Death Boat , ceramic, 2008. Photo: Don Hall. Death Boat and Other Stories investigates interpretations of transformation in Indigenous cultural art practices across Turtle Island. This exhibition features artworks drawn from the Kampelmacher Collection, which offer multifaceted worldviews situated in Indigenous knowledges and relationality. The themes of transitional space, place, and time inform a beautifully situated and embodied visual story. Collectors Thomas Druyan and Alice Ladner began acquiring Indigenous art in 1992, amassing well over 1,000 works. The couple named the collection after Thomas Druyan’s grandparents, Wolf and Sala Kampelmacher. The collection illustrates myriad artistic expressions from across North America. As MacKenzie curator Felicia Gay researched the collection, she was strongly drawn to Inuk artist Roger Aksadjuak’s ceramic artwork Death Boat (2008). Gay understood Death Boat as an animate being; it spoke to her, in its own way, prompting the themes in the exhibition