Unsettling
Unsettling
Artist, Mary Kainer
2019/2020
Unsettling is a series of large drawings containing text and collaged elements. Each drawing is a response to an event or policy of our governing colonial governments. Drawings contain maps, graphs, symbols, dates, and archival fragments in unpredictable images. They begin with Saskatchewan, the place of my upbringing.
In this series of drawings I present uncomfortable history and unsettling images. Reflected in the drawings is a history of cruelty, restriction, starvation, hardship, genocide and endurance. Unsettling is a didactic body of work presented to move and educate the viewer and open hearts and minds towards reconciliation. The drawings are the beginning of, what I hope will become a larger installation.
Drawings to date include: Residential Schools, Smallpox & Disease, Bones to Bone China, Treaty Lands and Homesteads, Hudson’s Bay Fur Trade, Starvation Policy, Off-reserve Pass System, Reduce Reserves, Sexual Exploitation, Enfranchisement, Unethical Experiments, Landless Tribes, Racially Segregated, Metis Script and Section 141.
31/01/2020
