The Iqaluit-based Inuk multidisciplinary artist received the $100,000 Sobey Art Award at a ceremony at the National Gallery of Canada on Saturday. It is one of Canada's major awards for emerging artists. | CBCNunavut
The Canadian PressLaakkuluk Williamson Bathory is seen in an undated handout photo. Williamson Bathory has been awarded the Sobey Art Award and its $100,000 prize.The Iqaluit-based Inuk multidisciplinary artist received the $100,000 prize at a ceremony at the National Gallery of Canada on Saturday., a Greenlandic mask dance that involves storytelling centred around three elements: fear, humour and sexuality.
"In a time when we recognize that this Canadian soil bears the small bodies of many thousands of Indigenous children, in an era when we work through colonial institutions to keep our families safe in the pandemic and at a moment when the Arctic city I live [in] The jury consisted of Canadian curators and two international jurors. In the release, they said Williamson Bathory "provocatively transforms the framework of references for contemporary art.""Williamson Bathory's performance practice courageously defies preconceived notions through embodied lived experience," the jury said.
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