Leah Decter: becoming|un|becoming: deepening relations at Ottawa Art Gallery

Imprint, 2008, digital print from video. Photo Leah Decter

becoming| un |becoming is an expression of shared and distinct approaches that deepen the possibilities of imagining decolonial/non-colonial futures, where un/learning and remembering, intercultural collaboration and intergenerational responsibility are realized.  

In her artworks, Leah enlists conceptual and material icons within the landscape of settler imagery in Canada that encourages critical reflection and careful consideration. She engages familiar national symbols, such as the canoe, Hudson Bay Company (HBC) blankets and depictions of so-called wilderness in landscape paintings to unsettle national narratives embedded in settler Canadian consciousness.  

becoming| un |becoming is an invitation to collectively contemplate the ways in which we are all impacted by or implicated in the settler colonial project of Canadian nation-building. Further, the exhibition provokes us to ask: 

Find more information on the exhibition, talks and a performance by the artist .