Irene Avaalaaqiaq Tiktaalaaq (1941-)
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Baker Lake, Untitled, 1994, duffle, felt and embroidery floss, signed in syllabics, 46 x 58 in , 117 x 147 cm. ... "My grandmother used to tell me stories… My grandmother told me that animals used to turn into people… I wondered how I could do something to put the stories my grandmother used to tell me into art" (the artist quoted in Hessel, Arctic Spirit, Heard Museum, 2006, p. 123) ... Avaalaaqiaq’s life and work are featured in Judith Nasby’s compelling book Irene Avaalaaqiaq: Myth and Reality (McGill-Queen’s 2002). The main text expands the idea to “Where Myth and Reality Intersect.” This is the essence of Avaalaaqiaq’s art; she blurs the distinctions between storytelling, myth, dreams and imagination. Her bold hangings rely on structure and symbolism to convey meaning, rather than on narrative or decoration. ... According to commentaries by Avaalaaqiaq and Nasby on similar hangings, the iconography is roughly this: border heads and faces generally represent spirits, often threatening; the standing figures, possibly inuksuit (stone structures), have “speaking faces” in their torsos; the four-legged creatures are probably a caribou-human and a caribou-bird.--- CATEGORIES: Inuit, Eskimo
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Irene Avaalaaqiaq Tiktaalaaq (1941-)
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