Love Medicine

Love Medicine, curated by Métis art historian Dr. Michelle McGeough, aims to create a space of recognition and community, offering an artistic embrace in response to the historical traumas inflicted by the settler nation-state on 2Spirit/Indigiqueer bodies.

This exhibition is founded on the belief that love, expressed through artistic acts, is a powerful force for healing and affirmation. It features approximately 22 Indigenous 2SLGBTQIA+ artists whose works touch on various time periods and regions, and explore love as healing, community and belonging, affirmation and embrace, and resilience and identity.

Love Medicine features new and existing works by: Barry Ace, asinnajaq, Melcolm Beaulieu, Katherine Boyer, Dayna Danger, Theo J. Cuthand, Rosalie Favell, Kylie Fineday, Terry Haines, Robert Houle, Kablusiak, Jake Kimble, Cheyenne Rain LeGrande ᑭᒥᐘᐣ, George Littlechild, Aiyyana Maracle, Kent Monkman, Peter Morin, Norval Morrisseau, Lisa Myers, Van Racine, Adrian Stimson, Nabidu Taylor.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Love Medicine is generously supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council; Thinking Through the Museum – Museum Queeries Cluster (Concordia University), the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Decolonial and Transformational Indigenous Art Practices (University of Victoria), Curating Change: Centring Decolonization, Equity, and Social Justice in Exhibition Practice (Nova Scotia School of Art and Design), the University of Winnipeg, Concordia University, and the University of Winnipeg Research Office.