Caroline Monnet: Mobilize

Showing in the gallery’s dedicated video room is Caroline Monnet’s video work Mobilize. Produced with the NFB, Mobilize is part of a film series addressing Aboriginal identity and representation by reworking material in the NFB’s archives. A journey by canoe into the city creates a dynamic interconnection between natural and urban spaces. In this evocative short set to a hypnotizing soundtrack by Inuk artist Tanya Taqaq, director Caroline Monnet celebrates the fierce resourcefulness of Indigenous people in adapting to the dizzying changes of the past century.

Caroline Monnet (b. 1985) is a multidisciplinary artist from the Outaouais region, currently living in Montreal. She works in film, video, painting, sculpture and installation, and is a founding member of the Indigenous digital arts collective ITWÉ. Monnet’s work has appeared in exhibitions and festivals in Canada, the United States, France, Germany, the UK, New Zealand and elsewhere, including the Palais de Tokyo, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Toronto International Film Festival, Aesthetica, the Cannes Film Festival, the Smithsonian Institute, the Sundance Film Festival, the Musée d’art contemporain (Montréal) and Arsenal Contemporary Art. Monnet is currently working in Paris at the Cinéfondation du Festival de Cannes on the development of her first feature Bootlegger.