December 2023 to December 2025
Métis artist Tracey-Mae Chambers has created an artistic intervention, currently on display in the Canadian Immigration Story exhibition.
“Since July 2021, I have created over 100 installations at residential school historical sites, museums, art galleries and other public spaces. Many of these spaces present a colonial viewpoint and primarily speak about the settlers who arrived and lived here, but not the Indigenous people that were displaced along the way. The installations are constructed with red wool, silk, cotton yarn.
Red is the colour of blood. Red is the slur against Indigenous people. Red is the colour of passion and anger, danger and power, courage and love.
I hope to bridge the gap between settlers and First Nations, Métis, and Inuit by creating art that is approachable and non-confrontational and by starting a conversation about decolonization and reconciliation.”
Tracey-Mae Chambers’ intervention is on display in the Canadian Immigration Story exhibition until December 2025. A new intervention by an Indigenous artist will be installed in the exhibition every two years.