Title: La Déchirure (detail: le teueikan)
Creator: Ashukan
Subject: Visual Arts | Native People | Ashukan (Jean-Pierre Fontaine - Isabelle Courtois)
Description: Bas relief, patinated plaster and dyed leather, 2006
225 x 186 cm for the entire work, detail : 66 x 37 cm
The left side of the work shows some aspects of traditional Innu ceremonies, such as a sweatlodge. Here the figures depicted are in a contemplative mood. By a fire, a shaman interprets the signs the fire has left on a caribou shoulder blade. The patinated plaster provides a bronze effect: greenish tones embellished with golden highlights. The set of sculpted pieces lies on two dyed skins with roughly ripped edges. The way these two elements play off each other gives rise to a palpable tension between two separate universes which each have their own codes and features. The contrast between these two worlds is heightened by the attitude of the figures depicted: the enraged priest and the contemplative shaman.s
Date Created: 2006
Identifier: pepn/ashukan01