Duane Linklater: Kâkikê / Forever
📅 Sat, May 23, 10 AM – Sun, May 24, 9 PM
3475 Albert Street, Regina, SK, Canada, Saskatchewan S4S 6X6
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Experience Exhibitions Duane Linklater: Kâkikê / Forever Duane Linklater, Kâkikê / Forever , acrylic, aluminum and LEDs, MacKenzie Art Gallery, 2018. Photo: Don Hall. The MacKenzie Art Gallery presents a newly commissioned artwork, Kâkikê / Forever (2018) by Omaskêko Ininiwak (Cree) artist Duane Linklater. The artwork will be installed on the façade of the T.C. Douglas building. Kâkikê / Forever is a text-based, site-specific work that responds to various aspects of its location. Drawing from unattributed Indigenous words spoken during the making of treaties: “As long as the sun shines, the river flows, and the grass grows,” Kâkikê / Forever poetically reflects Canada’s conflicted past, charged present, and future (post) colonial imaginary. The MacKenzie Art Gallery is situated within Treaty 4 territory, the traditional home of the Cree, Saulteaux, and Métis peoples, and a home to the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota people. Treaty 4 was signed in 1874 between First Nations and the British Crown at Fort Qu’Appelle