Nadia Myre
Portrait in Motion
Artist
Nadia Myre
Born in Montreal in 1974
Title
Portrait in Motion
Date
2002
Materials
Mini DV transferred to DVD, 1/5
Dimensions
Screen: 64.5 x 31.4 x 3.8 cm; Running time: 2 min 21 s (looped)
Duration
Running time: 2 min 21 s
Credits
Purchase, the Museum Campaign 1998-2002 Fund, inv. 2009.59.1-2
Collection
Quebec and Canadian Art
The Algonquin artist Myre returned to the first contact between Aboriginals and Europeans to reappropriate the symbols and skills that characterized their interaction. However, she transgresses them, shifting them in time, to expose their discrepancies. Here, her work’s clearly political nature is veiled by a playful poetry.
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