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LandMarks2017 Gros Morne
June 29, 2017
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LandMarks2017/Repères2017 invites people to creatively explore and deepen their connection to the land through a series of contemporary art projects in
and around Canada’s National Parks and Historic Sites starting in June 2017. LandMarks2017/Repères2017 inspires dialogue about people, places and perspectives that have shaped our past and are vital to our futures.
Rebecca Belmore’s project Wave Sound is an invitation to listen to the land. The cone-like shape of the sculpture creates a natural amplification of the surrounding environment, while the surface of the sculpture is made from a cast of nearby rock formations. Visitors are invited to place their ear next to the small opening, and listen.
The sculpture will be installed on June 29th, 2017 on a rock bed at Green Point in Gros Morne National Park of Canada in Newfoundland.
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On June 29th, 2017 at 4pm visitors are invited to join Assistant Curator Léa Toulouse and parks guides at Green Point in Gros Morne National Park of Canada to learn about the LandMarks 2017 national project and Rebecca Belmore’s art installation titled Wave Sound. Visitors will be guided from the Visitor Centre to the sculpture at Green Point to view the installation of the sculpture, meet the artist, and view the work of international renowned artist Rebecca Belmore.
About the artist:
A member of Lac Seul First Nation (Anishinaabe), Rebecca Belmore is an internationally recognized multidisciplinary artist currently residing in Montréal. Rooted in the political and social realities of Indigenous communities, Belmore’s works make evocative connections among bodies, land and language.
Her notable exhibitions, performances and artworks include Rebecca Belmore: Rising to the Occasion, Vancouver Art Gallery (2008); The Named and the Unnamed, performance (2002); the sculpture Trace at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights; Fringe, White Thread, and Untitled 1, 2, 3, photographs; and Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother, performances (1991,1992,1996, 2008). Belmore received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2013, the Hnatyshyn Visual Arts Award in 2009, the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation’s VIVA Award in 2004, and an OCAD University Honorary Doctorate in 2005. Also in 2005, she was Canada’s official representative at the Venice Biennale. In 2016, Rebecca was awarded the prestigious Gershon Iskowitz Prize by the Art Gallery of Ontario.