Isuma Selects Curatorial Team for Venice
Photo by AJ Messier (Kingulliit Productions)
Isuma, led by Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn, has appointed five Canadian curators to organize the collective’s exhibition at next year's Venice Biennale.
The curatorial team includes Asinnajaq, Catherine Crowston, Barbara Fischer, Candice Hopkins and Josée Drouin-Brisebois.
Isuma was selected as Canada’s official entry last December by a national committee of experts in contemporary Canadian art.
The curators bring multiple strengths to the project, including experience curating international exhibitions and working with northern communities.
Isuma, which means “to think or a state of thoughtfulness” in Inuktitut, was co-founded in 1990 as Canada’s first Inuit-owned independent production company.
It has won numerous awards for its stories of colonial-settler relations and contemporary life from an Inuit perspective.
Source: National Gallery of Canada
