Kimowan Metchewais: Some Kind of Prayer

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A Kind of Prayer is the first-ever comprehensive survey of the late Cree artist Kimowan Metchewais’s unique and expansive body of work. Central to his practice is an extensive archive of Polaroids addressing themes such as Indigenous identity, community, colonial memory, the artist’s own body, language, landscapes, and everyday life. These images inform his mixed-media creations, including paintings and collages, offering poetic reflections on connection to home and land while challenging conventional narratives of Indigeneity.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in contemporary Indigenous art, photographic archives, and explorations of identity, community, and colonial histories through mixed media. Art scholars, students, and those engaged with Indigenous cultural expression will find this survey essential.

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Kimowan Metchewais: Some Kind of Prayer presents the first-ever survey dedicated to the late Cree artist Kimowan Metchewais and his singular body of work on Indigenous identity, community, and colonial memory.

After his untimely death at age forty-seven in 2011, Metchewais left behind a wholly original and expansive body of photographic and mixed-media work. At the centre of his practice is an extensive Polaroid archive, which addresses a range of themes—including the artist's body, performative self-portraiture, language, landscapes, and everyday subjects—and served as the source material for works in other media, such as painting and collage. Metchewais's exquisitely layered works offer a poetic meditation on his connection to home and land, while challenging conventional narratives and representations of Indigeneity.

Metchewais was a contemporary artist of stunning originality, and until now, his work has been woefully understudied and underexposed. Kimowan Metchewais: Some Kind of Prayer is a comprehensive overview that showcases this essential artist's astonishing vision.

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“Kimowan is a gift – an important voice for Native artists and the contemporary art world,” The New York Times praises, recognising the inspiration of Metchewais’s work despite his premature death. Photo London highlights the survey’s focus on Indigenous identity and colonial memory, while Harper’s Magazine notes his prominent mixed-media pieces and exhibitions. The International Center of Photography describes the monograph as both a photobook and scholarly publication that explores Indigenous identity through his distinctive photographic and multimedia works.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781597115322

Publisher: Aperture

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 12 January 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Aperture

Illustration: 150 four-color images

Contributors:

Photographs by Kimowan Metchewais
Text by Christopher T. Green
Text by Kimowan Metchewais
Text by Emily Moazami
Text by Jeff Whetstone
Designed by London A2/SW/HK

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 209.0mm

Height: 260.0mm

Weight: 1270g

Pages: 224

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Kimowan Metchewais (19632011; born in Oxbow, Saskatchewan, Canada) was a multidisciplinary Cree artist who began his artistic career working as an illustrator and editor at the Native newspaper Windspeaker. He later received his bachelor of fine arts at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, before completing his master of fine arts at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. In 1995, Metchewais received the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship to spend the summer at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, and in 1996, a national award from the Canadian Native Arts Foundation. At the time of his death, he was associate professor in the art department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Christopher Green is a writer and art historian whose research focuses on modern and contemporary Native American art and material culture. His work has appeared in Aperture, Artforum, Art in America, and Frieze, among other publications. Emily Moazami is assistant head archivist at the National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC. Emily Moazami is assistant head archivist at the National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC. Jeff Whetstone is professor and head of photography at Princeton University, New Jersey.