the scab to pick at

Artist/Creator: Whess Harman (Artist)
Date: 2014
ID #: BG6234

Physical Description

Medium: ink
Support: paper
Dimensions: 46 cm 60.8 cm (Object)
Object Description: Whess Harman's text works are a response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Resisting the expectation that Harman be an expert for non-Indigenous people, this work force the viewer to struggle to decipher the texts. Harman’s methodology of “unfixity” offers an anti-colonial version of the encounter between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people outside of colonial, binary ways of being.

History

Collection: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
Credit Line: Purchased with support from the Morris and Helen Belkin Foundation, 2022
Related Exhibitions: Start Somewhere Else: Works from the Collection

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