Defying curatorial and art-historical conventions that situate Inuit art outside the trajectory of contemporary art, Campbell offers a poignant and deeply resonant pairing of Inuit and Southern Canadian artists to imagine a different geography of cultural relationships. Organized around particular areas of artistic and formal interest, each pairing reveals common threads in both approach and subject matter in service of visual storytelling related to the present moment. This manifests as the recollection of historical and lived trauma in the work of Shuvinai Ashoona and Shary Boyle, and in the work of Ed Pien and Samonie Toonoo, as well as the visual experience of expansive landscapes in the work of Ohotaq Mikkigak and Jack Bush.

Nancy Campbell is an independent curator of Inuit and Canadian contemporary art. She has curated exhibitions for the Liverpool Biennial, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, and McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Her books include Shuvinai Ashoona: Life & Work, Annie Pootoogook: Cutting Ice, and Itee Pootoogook: Hymns to the Silence.

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