Join us on Tuesday, March 31, for a live performance by Jeneen Frei Njootli in the gallery, presented within The Caribou Art Project. Working across sound, performance, and material practice, Frei Njootli’s work engages land, kinship, and resistance, activating the installation in a powerful and intimate way.
About the artist:
Jeneen Frei Njootli is currently and imperfectly working on liberating their mind from colonial ideologies. Their hands are busy with making a book, a fashion line, and community murals while raising two home-birthed babies in their Vuntut Gwitchin homelands. They are represented by Macaulay & Co. Fine Art in Vancouver and have exhibited and performed in many galleries, museums, and artist-run centers around the world. This winter, Frei Njootli had a solo exhibition at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto titled: “the skies closed themselves when we averted our gaze.” They are excited to work on liberating the salmon from trawlers and protecting the caribou.
About the exhibit:
The Caribou Art Project is an installation that consists of 30 life-size, 2D caribou made from acrylic and plywood, plus a 90-min sound composition. The herd, made by Lianne Charlie and Nic Hyatt (co-leads) with eight Indigenous participants from the North.
