Vision

This work arose from Alanis Obomsawin’s reflections on the ancestral stories and voices relayed to this day through the petroglyphs with which she has visited over the years. An ardent defender of the beauty and sovereignty of her W8banaki Nation as well as of many other Indigenous Nations since 1967, Obomsawin underscores the emotive power of colour and material. Using a visual language in which horses, bears, stars,cemeteries and schools coexist, she predicates the central role of matriarchal ways of being and thinking.