blood

Faye HeavyShield

Cultural affiliations: Blackfoot Confederacy from the Kainaiwa (Blood) Nation, Canada

blood, 2004 - 2004

Material/technique: cotton; cotton string; acrylic

Credit line: Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts

Accession number: EL2025.011

Not on display

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Bold Women

As a child Faye HeavyShield briefly experienced the boarding school system that separated Native children from their parents and tried to force assimilation into white culture. This floor-to-ceiling thread-based installation looks at blood ties, ancestry, heritage, family, the site of wounds, and the potency of memory. HeavyShield’s minimalist forms are often a metaphor for the human body, and her sculptures sometimes suggest familial structures. Here she considers the multiple associations that blood presents.