Exhibitions
Mnidoo Minising Spirit Gallery showcases contemporary art by emerging and established Indigenous artists and is committed to promoting contemporary Anishnaabe art.
Current Exhibition
About the Exhibit
Home Slice interweaves snippets of hazy memory and striking realism to explore the world of the pawnshop, a repository for anecdotes and rumors where hundreds of disparate objects stand side by side, vacillating between reality and fiction. Home Slice is inspired by a personal story from the artist's childhood, in which a family member stole and pawned one of his video games. The game, now irretrievably lost, has been the subject of all kinds of speculation and assumptions. Nico Williams is greatly influenced by popular culture and the aesthetics of the 1990s; he seeks to highlight certain cultural convergences between Indigenous and non-Indigenous practices through the representation of familiar objects from that period. Beadwork, an ancestral technique he reworks and updates and which combines tradition and modernity, becomes a vehicle for reflection and exchange between nations.