"Osopikahikiwak" means "painters" in Cree. Poitras and Rivet are Native Canadians whose practice and concept of painting is marked by a wish to perpetuate the symbols and images whose pictorial elaboration illustrates a tragic destiny. Poitras' paintings - layered with photographs, text and hieroglyphics - are strong, bright and immediate, visually and politically charged, and full of memory. Rivet's paintings are half-toned, less obvious and more mysterious. Drawn from shamanic symbolism, his figurative images have been submerged into a quiet, melodious whole blending abstract-expressionism, primitivism and graffiti. Rivet is the recent recipient of the Eiteljore Museums Fellowship for Native American Art. Profusely illustrated with a dozen full page color plates.

Osopikahikiwak: Jane Ash Poitras & Rick Rivet

Arts & Photography

Bédard, Catherine

Painting

Services Culturels De L'Ambassade Due Canada

Ken Lum

Beneath an apparant celebration of social integration, Lum’s Signs - for a motel, a restaurant, a hairdresser’s - expose the ramifications of the systematic displacement of peoples. They mime the real signs found in those working class areas on the edge of any city and often populated by people from some of the most devastated parts of the world. Seducing the viewer by their festive air, Lum's signs’ textual charge ignites a discourse that is at once universal (globalization and mass migrations) and personal (individual lives and ethnicity). But Lum raises doubts and seems to leave them unresolved. Are the signs real or fictional? The views are real, but whose are they - and who are they for? With 30 color illustrations.

Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris

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Osopikahikiwak: Jane Ash Poitras & Rick Rivet

Ken Lum