Mary Longman: Transposing Perspectives
Essay by Mary Longman
Introduction by Jen Budney, Foreword by Vincent J. Varga
Transposing Perspectives documents well known Canadian (Saultaux) artist Mary Longman’s eight large-scale lenticular photographs presented at the Mendel Art Gallery in the fall of 2009 in the exhibition Mary Longman: New Work. The works are revisionist histories, images designed to correct, refine, and reinterpret the entrenched narratives and icons of Canadian history, and the history of colonialism in the Americas. The catalogue is a record of the exhibition and also a vehicle for a detailed essay by the artist, which is presented to provide further information on issues of representation of Aboriginal people, the biographies of important Aboriginal figures in modern Canadian history, and the history of colonialism in the Americas. Her text is a deliberate counter-narrative, at times polemical, and rooted in her personal and political experiences as an Aboriginal woman from Saskatchewan.
Full colour, 44 pp., $15.00
Mendel Art Gallery, 2011
ISBN 978-1-896359-75-5
