(left) SORRY (Stephen Harper), SORRY (Kevin Rudd), from the SORRY series, installation view, 112 x 163 cm inkjet prints; (right) WE ARE SORRY, detail, 610 cm x 1402 cm text-on-fabric panel, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 2010.
WE ARE SORRY, detail, two 610 cm x 1402 cm text-on-fabric panels, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 2010.
WE ARE SORRY, detail, two 610 cm x 1402 cm text-on-fabric panels, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 2010.
(left) SORRY (Stephen Harper), SORRY (Kevin Rudd), from the SORRY series, installation view, 112 x 163 cm inkjet prints; (center and right) WE ARE SORRY, installation view, two 610 cm x 1402 cm text-on-fabric panels, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 2010.
WE ARE SORRY, detail, 610 cm x 1402 cm text-on-fabric panel, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 2010.
WE ARE SORRY launch, (left to right) Stephen Borys (Director, Winnipeg Art Gallery); Justice Murray Sinclair (Chair, Truth and Reconciliation Commission); Cathy Busby (artist); Commissioner Marie Wilson; Commissioner Chief Wilton Littlechild, standing in front of WE ARE SORRY, 610 cm x 1402 cm text-on-fabric panel, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 2010.
WE ARE SORRY, production detail, trimming polyduck fabric in preparation for sewing, text-on-fabric panel for exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 2010.
WE ARE SORRY, production detail, sewing ten strips of fabric together as required for each text-on-fabric panel, for exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 2010.
Eckhardt Hall before installation of WE ARE SORRY, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 2010.
Eckhardt Hall during installation of WE ARE SORRY, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 2010.
WE ARE SORRY, didactic information (PDF file) detail, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 2010.
WE ARE SORRY publication, #10 Artists & Activists series, Printed Matter, New York and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, on display at Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 2010.
Smudging ceremony lead by Calvin Pompana outside the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 2010.
Smudging ceremony lead by Calvin Pompana outside the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 2010.
Hoop dancer, Brian Clyne, performing a healing dance in front of We Are Sorry, 610 cm x 1402 cm text-on-fabric panel, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 2010.
After the hoop dance in front of WE ARE SORRY, 610 cm x 1402 cm text-on-fabric panel, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 2010.
WE ARE SORRY Winnipeg (2010)
WE ARE SORRY (Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2010) is an installation made up of two panels with excerpts from the 2008 landmark apologies to Aboriginal peoples by Prime Ministers Stephen Harper (Canada) and Kevin Rudd (Australia), along with two prints of their mouths at the time of these apologies. The installation was accompanied by a publication, WE ARE SORRY (#10 Artists & Activists series, Printed Matter, New York). We Are Sorry was presented in Winnipeg by invitation from The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. It continues until August 22, 2010.