Moccasin Ominjimendaan/Remember, Waniike/Forget

Date2006

Maker Charlene Vickers Anishinaabe, Canadian, born 1970

Label TextVickers’s work explores memory, healing, and embodied connections to ancestral lands. Like scores of otherchildren in Canada, Vickers was barred from learning Indigenous history, knowledge, and traditions. The cultural loss she experienced and her ongoing process of regaining Indigenous knowledge and artistic skills became the foundation of her artistic practice. The traumatic histories of disappeared and murdered First Nations women in Canada form the conceptual backdrop of this work.

Object number2021.22.1

ProvenanceThe artist; purchased by Lee Plested, Bellingham, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia; to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2021

Photo CreditPhoto: Scott Leen

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Reverberations: Contemporary Art and Modern Classics, Dec. 22, 2022 - ongoing [on view beginning June 14, 2023].

Credit LineGift of Lee Plested and Erik von Mueller

Dimensions36 x 15 x 16 in. (91.4 x 38.1 x 40.6 cm)

MediumBlanket, chair, postcard, beer carton, beads, cardboard