Artist Rebecca Belmore on why she uses her body to make a statement in her artwork

Originally published on July 13, 2018

Rebecca Belmore is an award-winning Anishinaabe artist who's represented Canada at some of the biggest art shows in the world. She's best known for her performance and large-scale installation work that calls attention to issues such as inequality, missing and murdered Indigenous women, and water and land rights.

Belmore's latest exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, called Rebecca Belmore: Facing the Monumental, is her largest solo show to date, spanning three decades and featuring sculpture, photography, performance and installation art.

She joined q guest host Talia Schlanger to talk about the use of her own body and voice in her performance pieces, why she sees herself as a worker and the significance of using everyday objects in her art. Rebecca Belmore: Facing the Monumental runs until Sunday, Oct. 21 at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

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— Produced by Cora Nijhawan​