Artists
Jeneen Frei Njootli
In the film Being Skidoo, Jeneen Frei Njootli takes an intimate look at the North by considering the practice and aesthetics of reciprocity in the Vuntut Gwitchin community of Old Crow, a village in the northern Yukon. Following the Vuntut Gwitchin people’s tradition of dressing their sled dogs in embroidered blankets, Frei Njootli creates ceremonial garments for snowmobiles, honouring them as means of and partners in transport. In the sculpture wind sucked in through bared teeth, Frei Njootli presents two steel panels marked by her body subsequent to a performance with grease. Traces of the pearls that she wore during the performance also surface upon the panels. Suggesting a landscape, the diptych testifies to the physical, cultural, and territorial violence experienced by Indigenous peoples.
Exhibited work(s):
Being Skidoo (2017)
wind sucked in through bared teeth (2017)
- Born
- 1988, Whitehorse, Canada
- Countries / Nations
- Canada
- Lives
- On the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, Sto:lo and Tsleil-Waututh people
Works

Jeneen Frei Njootli
Being Skidoo
Exhibition view, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal, 2019.
Photo credit: Jean-Michael Seminaro
© MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain and Galerie de l’UQAM.

Jeneen Frei Njootli
wind sucked in through bared teeth
Exhibition view, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal, 2019.
Photo credit: Jean-Michael Seminaro
© MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain and Galerie de l’UQAM.

Jeneen Frei Njootli
Being Skidoo
2017
Vidéo HD, couleur, son, 9 min 51 s
Avec l’aimable autorisation de Macaulay & Co. Fine Art (Vancouver) et de Partners in Art (Toronto)
Photo credit: Jeneen Frei Njootli et Partners in Art (Toronto)
© Jeneen Frei Njootli

Jeneen Frei Njootli
wind sucked in through bared teeth
2017
Impression à la graisse, plaques d’acier
Photo credit: Michael Love
© Jeneen Frei Njootli