Museum of Contemporary Circumpolar Art (MCCA)
ObjectShared Migration / Shared Migration: Spirits, Animals and Humans (Sculpture )
The ancestors of the Greenland Inuit left their ancient Alaskan homelands in search of a new place to call home. They brought with them new hunting technology and modes of transport. And with them came their stories, myths and legends.
p 72 Moving Forward: Breaking Through
Sedna, the feared and revered ruler of the sea and mother of al marine mammals, maintains the balance ofthe world by punishing humans who break rules and taboos. Now Sedna is depicted as a helper.
She supports a boat filled with spirits, humans and animals - a symbol that we are all in the same boat, and that we must navigate our shared challenges together through uncertain times.
Accession
2015.01
Object Type
Sculpture
Title
Shared Migration
Description
Shared Migration: Spirits, Animals and Humans
Production Year
2013
Production Location
Paulatuk, Northwest Territories, Canada
Materials
Brazilian Serpentine
Dimensions
H26 x W24 x L83 cm
Provenance
Kipling Gallery
Exhibitions
- Linked: When Contemporary Art Creates Awareness About Climate Change (Musee oceanographique, Monaco), 2015
- Linked: When Contemporary Art Creates Awareness About Climate Change (Black Box/ White Space, Neuchatel, Switzerland), 2016
- Moving Forward: Breaking Through (MCCA), 2014
- Canada's 150th Anniversary (Davos, Switzerland), 2017
- What Inuit have been doing and still do (Permanent Canadian Mission to UNO and WTO, Geneva, Switzerland), 2017
- When contemporary art creates awareness about climate change (Vigdis International Centre for Multiingualism and Intercultural Understanding, Reykjavk, Iceland), 2018
- When comtemporary art creates awareness about climate change (Arctic Circle Assembly, Harpa, Reykjavik, Iceland), 2018
- Permanent Exhibition (Museum Cerny Inuit Collection, Bern, Switzerland), 2018
- Voices from the Arctic / Röster från Arktis (Världskulturmuseet, Gothenburg, Sweden), 2019
- ᓂᐲᑦ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᒥᙵᖅᑐᑦ. Stimmen aus der Arktis (Museum Cerny), 2020
- ᓂᐲᑦ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᒥᙵᖅᑐᑦ. Stimmen aus der Arktis (Liechtensteinisches LandesMuseum, Vaduz), 2021
- ᓂᐲᑦ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᒥᙵᖅᑐᑦ. Stimmen aus der Arktis (Winckelmann-Museum, Stendal, Germany), 2022
- Röster Från Arktis (Kiruna, Sweden), 2022
- Sedna (Saanen), 2023
- Migration et climat (National museum of the History of Immigratiopn, Palais de la Porte Dorée), 2025

