Artists
Marianne Nicolson
Artist, researcher, and activist of the Musgamagw Dzawada̱ʼenux̱w Nation, Marianne Nicolson uses her art to advocate for Indigenous ancestral land rights and to preserve the sacred rituals of her community in Gwa’yi (Kingcome Inlet). Whether through her monumental public art commissions, her writing and public speaking, her community interventions or her sculptural installations, Nicolson negotiates the complex dynamics between visibility and invisibility. Nicolson refuses to abide the logic of compensation through visibility as practiced by political and cultural institutions. This logic only perpetuates the colonial-capitalist paradigm of exploitation and extraction that strips traditional cultural symbols of their meaning, purpose, and potency.
Exhibition produced in partnership with VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine.
- Countries / Nations
- Musgamagw Dzawada̱ʼenux̱w Nation

Works

Marianne Nicolson, Emerged as Stars: A Portrait of Dispossession, 2022, exhibition view of The Stories They Tell: Indigenous Art and the Photography of Edward S. Curtis, The James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art, St. Petersburg, 2023. Photo: Caitlin Pendola