Kimowan Metchewais: A Kind of Prayer

Title: Kimowan Metchewais: A Kind of Prayer Author: Kimowan Metchewais ISBN: 9781597115322 Publisher: Aperture Published: 2023 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Photography 1557008 Publisher Description: A 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-eight 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 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 exquisit