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Qillaniq
Featuring essays by 24 contributors from the circumpolar world – Alaska, Inuit Nunangat, Kalaallit Nunaat, and Sápmi – and reproductions of work by nearly 70 artists from each of these territories, Qillaniq is a true celebration of the circumpolar North, not as the South might want it to be but as it is.
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Louise Bourgeois
“All my subjects have found their inspiration in my childhood,” explained Bourgeois. A recurrent subject for the artist in this respect is the spider, whose association with textiles and weaving reflects the time Bourgeois spent as a child in her parents’ tapestry restoration workshop in France. Presiding over the plaza of the National Gallery of Canada, Maman – a giant egg-carrying arachnid cast in bronze – was inspired by the artist’s own mother, and stands as a nurturing and protective symbol of fertility, shelter and the home.
Louise Bourgeois, Maman, 1999, cast 2003. © The Easton Foundation. Photo: NGC
