Museum of Contemporary Circumpolar Art (MCCA)
ObjectMother Praying for Our Survival (Sculpture )
My mother praying for our survival during a famine in the mid 50s. Note that the mother’s fingers have no tips, and she has no feet, but a tail resembling a sea mammal’s tail, possibly referring to Sedna.
Accession
2004.01
Object Type
ᓴᓇᙳᐊᕐᓂᖅ
Description
Mother Praying for Our Survival
Production Year
2004
Production Location
Ivujivik, Nunavik, Quebec, Canada
Materials
Serpentine, caribou antler, another stone type
Dimensions
H49 x W37 x L17 cm
Provenance
Fédération des coopératives du Nouveau-Québec
Exhibitions
- Linked: When Contemporary Art Creates Awareness About Climate Change (Musee oceanographique, Monaco), 2015
- Connections, Exposed to the Changing Climate, 2014
- Centre de Congres et d'Expositions de Montreux, 2006
- 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: Mythos und Wandel in der Arktis (NONAM), 2023
- Arctic Voices: Indigenous Perspectives on Pasts, Presents and Futures (MCCA), 2024
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