This exhibition is part of Asinabka Fest's Gallery Crawl : Catch a free Bus from SAW Gallery to G101, 4pm Bus returns to SAW, 7pm for the Neon NDN vernissage. More info
How do you feel? Have you listened to your instincts today? What is your gut telling you? All the combined fields of natural and social sciences have elucidated great intellectual theories as to the nature and function of what we do and the reasons and functionality behind it. To Geronimo Inutiq, the process of artistic expression is an alternative language to all that. Guided by some sort of arbitrary intuition and an abstract sense of aesthetics, he produces cultural artifacts that have been shown in galleries and museums in the context of contemporary Indigenous and Inuit art exhibits and performance - both nationally and internationally.
Bio : From Electronic music composition, to media-arts installation Geronimo Inutiq has sought to express - with a contemporary tool-set - a unique connection to traditions, as well as a will to innovate outside of the common discourse. Guided by the notion that creative personal expression and appreciation is a very subjective and individual experience, Geronimo Inutiq is interested in the dialogue that emerges between the individual and the increasingly large and complex interrelated circles of socially constructed systems of meaning. That - and, an arbitrary sense of aesthetics. A good portion of his childhood was spent in the eastern arctic on Baffin Island - close to the Inuktitut language and culture of his mother's family, and the territory - which provided the space to contemplate the grandeur and extremities of nature. Balance that with roots in Quebec and Montreal - and a rather cosmopolitan sensibility and education - and you get a better picture of part of the cultural context Geronimo has been inspired to create in.

Opening : Saturday, August 13, 5-7pm . Free BBQ!

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