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Naine Terena is an educator and artist as well as a curator. She considers the production and exhibition of art by Indigenous artists to be political activism.
"“I am a Tree” is an exercise in bringing together living creatures, the masters of all things, those invisible beings that populate this world and protect with knowledge everything that is around us. The four images acquired by the Mead [Art] Museum are part of a series composed of textile sculptures, photographs manipulated with cell phone apps, and a curatorial text, written by professor Evelin Hekeré Terena, whose objective is to echo Indigenous knowledge about the world we live in. “I am a Tree” connects different worlds—human, animal, and vegetable—to the possibility of seeing the universe [as individuals and also as a collective] through other perspectives.
Naine Terena (2024)
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art; photography; shape; abstract; symbolism; figures; narrative; perspective; rituals; trees; faces Subjects:
Face; Shapes; Trees; figures (representations); Rituals; Narrative art; Photography; Perspective; Art; Symbolism; Art, Abstract Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=AC+2023.44 |
