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Photo: Scott Leen
Moccasin Ominjimendaan/Remember, Waniike/Forget
Photo: Scott Leen

Moccasin Ominjimendaan/Remember, Waniike/Forget

Date2006
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
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