"Kent Monkman’s Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience takes you on a journey through the past 150 years of Canada. It is a journey that reclaims and reinserts Indigenous voices into the collective memory of our country, challenging and shattering colonial ideas of our history."
(from website)
Through his art, Kent Monkman has been critiquing the colonial world of the museums which have been so silent about Canada's history of colonization, which have presented the colonizers' view of history, which have whitewashed the horrible things that were done.
Expand your mind by taking part in this excellent curatorial tour of the exhibition:
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mACqPVUXzk8
Read the book online, in Cree, English and French: https://online.fliphtml5.com/xkla/ttia/#p=1. Note: I'd suggest watching the above video first, as it gives a clearer explanation if you are new to this.
Take a field trip to Winnipeg to see the exhibit at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (until Feb '23) and while you're there, check out the new qaumajuq galleries.
Other web resources about this piece:
https://www.wag.ca/event/kent-monkman/
* Includes stories
https://moa.ubc.ca/exhibition/shame-and-prejudice/
* Includes videos on:
Remarks from opening day of the exhibition
MOA Curator Dr. Jennifer Kramer (Pacific Northwest) and Roberta Jamieson, President and CEO of Indspire in conversation with Kent Monkman
Discussion of the queer Indigenous resilience, sexuality and eroticism in the exhibition
Virtual curatorial tour of the exhibition
Other posts about Kent Monkman and his work:
My post about Kent Monkman's amazing book, Revision and Resistance:
https://exclusionandembrace.blogspot.com/2020/04/revision-and-resistance-kent-monkman.html
My post of the exhibition, "The Rise and Fall of Civilization":
https://exclusionandembrace.blogspot.com/2020/04/rise-and-fall-of-civilization-exhibit.html
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