The exhibition Landings marks the starting point of a long-term research project that investigates the narratives – both historical and contemporary – that serve to construct claims of sovereignty over the people, histories, land and resources

the North. 

As a means of bridging polarized histories and encouraging dialogue between canonized, contested and elided histories, this exhibition brings together ostensibly discordant modes of image-making and storytelling. By enabling points of contact, this multifaceted and cross-disciplinary project seeks to challenge modes in which constructions of future histories of the North are to be articulated.

The exhibition features a new body of commissioned work by Canadian artist Dustin Wilson, as well as the film Atanarjuat - The Fast Runner (2001), by Canadian Inuit director Zacharias Kunuk, and Old Photos (1973) by Joanasie Salamonie with Canadian Inuit photographer and sculptor Peter Pitseolak.

New works and materials will be added to the exhibition periodically in attempts to augment points of dialogue and to trouble and expand on notions of sovereignty. 

Sarah Watson

Curator