Runs in the Family brings together the work of artists from Inuit communities, Flatland communities and Anishinaabeg communities to create new conversations about how the processes of art making involve multi-generational knowledge transmission and innovations.
The exhibition is grounded in a conceptual understanding of looking backward into the future, revealing complex networks that express “family” through artistic relations, materiality and creative contributions in art making and curatorial practices.
Runs in the Family offers audiences new ways of seeing Indigenous kinship ties through a multitemporal frame that invites greater understandings of Indigenous relationality.
CUAG thanks Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada for so generously lending numerous artworks to Runs in the Family.