In a Gallery\u002Dproduced video, Bowen said the work is a means to \u0022avenge\u0022 her family.
Sprawled across the building’s exterior south façade, the art piece features images portraying historical periods from Queen Victoria’s tenure, to the British and American abolition of slavery, to Black migration, to the First World War.is a narrative that spans from her great, great, great grandfather to the year of her mother’s birth, 1943, said Bowen in a video produced by the gallery.
The work is one of the largest installed by the National Gallery. At the centre of the piece is an illustration of a Black boy that was included in a 1911 Maclean’s magazine article written by Britton B. Cooke that included racist claims and argued against Black immigration to Canada. The, by Lawren Harris, who would become a leading member of the Group of Seven.
The artwork’s launch is to be celebrated with an opening event 5:00 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, August 1, which is Emancipation Day in Canada and marks the day the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 came into effect across the British Empire. The event will feature a conversation between Bowen and Jonathan Shaughnessy, the gallery’s director of curatorial initiatives.Article content
“I think she wants us to reflect on these things and understand things from her perspective,” Rioux-Beaulne said.Article contentutilizes archival documents in a collage-like manner to “bring the past into light for the present.”
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