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Shuvinai Ashoona (Inuit, Cape Dorset, Canada, b. 1961)<\/strong><\/p>\n Aujaqsiut Tupiq (Summer Tent)<\/i>, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n Etching and aquatint, 38\/50<\/strong><\/p>\n 31.5 x 37 inches<\/strong><\/p>\n Reproduced with the permissions of Dorset Fine Arts<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cSometimes the pencil is stronger than I am.”<\/p>\n \u2014 Shuvinai Ashoona<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Aujaqsiut Tupiq\u00a0<\/i>is both representational and abstract. \u00a0The work is intentionally ambiguous because it is not clear if the viewer is looking at the tent ceiling from the inside or outside while an anonymous figure is seen either entering or leaving the tent with only an arm and a leg in the doorway.\u00a0 The tent glows with a warm light that suggests the activities happening within the home, but the mysterious pictorial space prevents the viewer from deducting a single understanding of the scene.\u00a0 Representation and abstraction coexist in\u00a0Aujaqsiut Tupiq<\/i>: representational in that it presents identifiable forms and abstract in the cropped view of the tent and the ambiguous use of space.<\/p>\n The artist\u00a0<\/i>continually unsettles her audience because her work\u2019s meaning is always changing.\u00a0 The daughter of sculptor Kiawak Ashooona and granddaughter of esteemed artist Pitseolak Ashoona, Shuvinai Ashoona departs from traditional representations of Inuit life with her prints and drawings.\u00a0 Strikingly different from many of her contemporaries, Ashoona\u2019s style can be interpreted as a reflection of her fascination with horror films, comic books, and television.\u00a0 Ashoona also frequently plays with perspective and unique framing devices.\u00a0 She presents the everyday item of a summer tent in a fantastical and ominous mode, applying her contemporary perspective and imagination to a traditional Inuit object.\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0Ashoona is one of many younger Inuit artists that uses art to unsettle dominant narratives of a romanticized Arctic that often frame Inuit life as backwards and isolated.\u00a0 She does in this in\u00a0Aujaqsiut Tupiq\u00a0<\/i>by challenging her audience, of mostly non-Native peoples, to think about accepted notions of reality and the lives of Inuit people through the representation of an object that can be continually reinterpreted.<\/p>\n Aaron Jones ’16 & Caroline Winkeller ’14<\/em><\/strong> \u2190 Animals Out of Darkness<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Composition \u2192<\/a> Shuvinai Ashoona (Inuit, Cape Dorset, Canada, b. 1961) Aujaqsiut Tupiq (Summer Tent), 2009 Etching and aquatint, 38\/50 31.5 x 37 inches Reproduced with the permissions of Dorset Fine Arts \u201cSometimes the pencil is stronger than I am.” \u2014 Shuvinai Ashoona Aujaqsiut Tupiq\u00a0is both representational and abstract. \u00a0The work is intentionally ambiguous because it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3713,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/amst282\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/amst282\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/amst282\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/amst282\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3713"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/amst282\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/amst282\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/amst282\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/amst282\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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