First edition ofA Kind of Prayer byKimowan Metchewais (2023)
First impression
Large format hardback in new condition
Published by Aperture
About
A Kind of Prayerpresents 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 center of his practice is an extensive Polaroid archive, which addresses a range of themesincluding the artists body, performative self-portraiture, language, landscapes, and everyday subjectsand served as the source material for works in other media, such as painting and collage. Metchewaiss exquisitely layered works offer a poetic meditation on his connection to home and land, while challenging conventional narratives and representations of Indigeneity.
