Included with admission
About the artwork
Projected onto the facade of the Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion every evening, from dusk until 11 o’clock, ulitsuak | marée montante | rising tide reveals an animated world drawing on Inuit geometric designs and symmetries within a kaleidoscopic space comprising photographs of the artist’s beadwork. Contemporary Inuit motifs rooted in tattoo traditions, together with the artist’s connections to land, water, stars, and animals, conjure a space at once magical and familiar. The geometric figures follow the lines of the Museum’s architecture, while the animation slowly fills the facade, evoking the rising sea levels, melting ice caps, and the disruption of ecosystems.
About the speakers
Glenn Gear (born in 1970), originally from Nunatsiavut and Newfoundland, lives and works in Montreal. In his work, the Indigiqueer animator, filmmaker and visual artist explores his identity as an urban Inuk with ancestral ties to Nunatsiavut. He regularly creates animated short films related to these explorations. His current work centres on individual and collective history, exchange between Indigenous and settler populations, gender constructs and archival material.
Curator of Indigenous Practices at the MMFA since 2023, Léuli Eshrāghi belongs to the Sāmoan clans Seumanutafa and Tautua. They were curator of TarraWarra 2023: ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili (Highly Commended at the 2023 Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards), and Curatorial Researcher at Large at the University of Queensland Art Museum, where they co-curated Oceanic Thinking: Season Two (2022), Mare Amoris | Sea of Love (2023-2024) and How We Remember Tomorrow (2024). Eshrāghi has also been a contributing writer and editor to numerous publications. Their essay Bambae ol stamba fasin blong lukaotem mo kasem ol wanwan saed blong solwora i no save lusum (Highly Commended at the AAANZ 2023 Arts Writing and Publishing Awards) was conceived for the monograph Daniel Boyd: Treasure Island. They have curated and contributed to various exhibitions, juries, residencies and gatherings in contemporary art centres and art museums in Canada, France, Australia, Hawaiʻi and Aotearoa.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Reservation terms: Admission is included with the Wednesday night ticket, however spots are limited. Reserve your ticket here.
Location: The Museum’s main entrance, at 1380 Sherbrooke Street West.
