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When Salmon meets Saran Wrap: Settler Colonial Placidity and Anti-Relationality in Ktaqmkuk
- Source: Public, Volume 32, Issue 64, Dec 2021, p. 110 - 120
Abstract
This article uses white Canadian settler artist Mary Pratt’s photorealistic paintings of salmon to grapple with the ways in which settler colonialism necessitates anti-relationality between humans and the non-human world. I trace Indigenous (Beothuk and Mi’kmaq) histories of salmon in Ktaqmkuk|Newfoundland to grapple with what Pratt’s seemingly placid visions of everyday domestic settler life violently erase, concluding by with representations of salmon by Beothuk artist Shanawdithit.
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