This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry.
Emily Carr was a Canadian artist and writer inspired by the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. As one of the first painters in Canada to adopt a Modernist and Post-Impressionist painting style, Carr did not receive widespread recognition for her work until late in her life. As she matured, the subject matter of her painting shifted from aboriginal themes to landscapes—forest scenes in particular.
Die indigenen Gemeinschaften Kanadas haben die Wälder nicht nur geschont, sondern sogar deren Qualität verbessert - ganz im Gegensatz zum militärisch-kapitalistischen Komplex des Westens.
E. Carr. Verlag Das Kulturelle Gedächtnis, Berlin, 1. Auflage edition, (2020)Reportagen von Emily Carr ; aus dem kanadischen Englisch von Marion Hertle und mit einem Vorwort von Kathryn Bridge.