Mark Igloliorte on "subsist"

Watch Inuit interdisciplinary artist Mark Igloliorte speak to his works “Seal Skin Neck Pillow” and “Kayak is Inuktitut for Seal Hunting Boat” in the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s “subsist” exhibition. “subsist” brings together a selection of interdisciplinary works that reflect political, economic, and social systems of subsistence in the individual and collective maintenance of tradition for sustenance, survival, and development.

Mark Igloliorte is an interdisciplinary artist who works primarily in painting. He received his BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (2003) and his MFA from Concordia University (2010). His art education has informed his observational and investigative approach to painting, drawing and performance. Further, his works reveal a careful consideration of the relationship between image and material. Through art making, Igloliorte investigates and communicates his connection to his Inuit heritage. Since his teens, Igloliorte has also been an avid skateboarder, a practice which also informs how he plays with a shifting relationship to the landscape and ideas of place.

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