Art Metropole Black Book Local Tarah Hogue’s curatorial essay considers

Tarah Hogue’s curatorial essay considers the grounding of Stimson’s practice in the energetic lifeworld of the Siksikaitsitapi from his early paintings to the new work created for the exhibition

now intensified by our global pandemic and human-induced climate crisis

which in the 1920s was the most avant-garde art movement in the country

Exhibited and published in collaboration by the RMG and the Ottawa Art Gallery

Art Metropole Black Book Local Tarah Hogue’s curatorial essay considersBlack Book joins two threads of disparate cultures and historiesConfucian virtues & black humourinquiring into contemporary ideologies such as patriarchy and technological determinism. The woodblock illustrations in Black Book are borrowed from the 15th century Confucian text Illustrated Conduct of the Three Bonds, published and reproduced in Joseon era Korea as an effort to disseminate Confucian principles throughout the kingdom. These images are