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Agency is a powerful exhibition about Indigenous displacement, at MAI from March 6 to 29

by Savannah Stewart

Artist duo tīná gúyáńí reflect on the loss of their ancestral home in a mixed media exhibition envisioning self-determined, non-colonial ways of reconnecting with home, kinship and the land.

Agency is a powerful mixed media exhibition at the MAI by tīná gúyáńí, the parent-child duo of Glenna Cardinal and seth cardinal dodginghorse, reflecting on the loss of their ancestral home in Tsuut’ina Nation due to a land transfer for the Southwest Calgary Ring Road.

Through film, music and visual arts, they critique colonial institutions that continue to displace Indigenous families while exploring themes of land, healing and reclamation. More than a chronicle of forced removal, Agency envisions self-determined, non-colonial and non-patriarchal ways of reconnecting with home, kinship and the land.

Agency is on at MAI (3680 Jeanne-Mance) from March 6 to 29.

Agency is a powerful exhibition about Indigenous displacement, at MAI from March 6 to 29

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by Savannah Stewart

Contributing editor for Arts
Savannah Stewart is a freelance journalist and Managing Editor at The Rover. She is passionate about community reporting and is happiest writing about art, language and culture in Montreal.