“To know where we are going, we must first remember where we have been. This work is a way of addressing the silence and shame surrounding the experiences of violence of those close to me, of speaking out where they felt they couldn’t, and picking up on the traces of what was left unsaid.”
Jaime Black-Morsette
Jaime Black-Morsette is a Red River Métis artist and activist, with family scrip signed in the community of St Andrews, Manitoba. Jaime lives and works on her home territory near the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers. Founder of The REDress project in 2009, Black-Morsette has been using their art practice as a way to gather community and create action and change around the epidemic of violence against Indigenous women and girls across Turtle Island for over a decade. Black-Morsette’s interdisciplinary art practice includes immersive film and video, installation art, photography and performance art practices. Her work explores themes of memory, identity, place and resistance.
Traces act as evidence of repression, dispersion, unlikely affinities, secret histories, kinship, and artistic lineages.