Description

Kamotaan is an installation of new works by artist Faye HeavyShield. A member of the Kainai Nation and fluent speaker of the Blackfoot language, HeavyShield has created an installation of sculptural, photo based objects inspired by time spent in the Esplanade’s Burkitt Collection of Indigenous artifacts from the Kainai, Piikani, and Amskapi Nations. The pieces in this exhibition are not direct references to the objects in the collection. Rather, they are a reflective response to her experience visiting with these ancestral items.