Fall Program August–December 2020 Welcome back Ensuring a safe and healthy return to Remai Modern for all visitors and staff is our top priority. Visits to the museum promise to be as inspiring as ever, but there are a few new visitor guidelines to be aware of. We ask for your cooperation and patience as we institute new measures aimed at keeping everyone protected. Online tickets Visitors are encouraged to purchase their admission tickets in advance to limit contact during their visit. Members enjoy unlimited admission and do not need to pre-register their visit. Admission will be first-come, first-served to ensure new capacity guidelines aren’t exceeded. Adjusted hours At reopening, the museum will be open Thursday to Sunday from 10 AM–5 PM. Please visit remaimodern.org for updates. Increased sanitation Frequency of cleaning has been increased throughout the building, particularly in high traffic areas. Additionally, hand sanitization stations have been added at the front entrance and on each level of the museum. New signage Signage throughout the building will indicate maximum number of people in designated spaces, traffic flow and other important changes. Please follow these signs during your visit.

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Front cover: Zadie Xa, The Re-Up of Yung Yoomi: Hell Fire Can’t Scorch Me (detail), 2018, hand-sewn and machine-stitched assorted fabrics, faux fur and synthetic hair on bamboo, 188 cm x 210 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Union Pacific Gallery, London.

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BORDERLINE 2020 BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART

A partnership between the and Remai Modern. Curated by Sandra Fraser, Curator (Collections) at Remai Modern; Felicia Gay, Guest Curator for Remai Modern; Lindsey V. Sharman, AGA Curator; and Franchesca Hebert-Spence, AGA Adjunct Curator of Indigenous Arts.

A border defines an edge. It marks beginnings and endings, a line between yours and mine, between in and out. Borders attempt to define and delineate, striving to create order and to make sense of tangible and theoretical ways of being in the world. Borders are permeable and unfixed yet they are formidable. This exhibition examines the metaphysical, geopolitical and geographical separations between realms to reveal the sites where they meet, diverge and blur.

borderLINE seeks to probe the ways borders are defined, who has the power to enforce them, and who (or what) is confined by their limits. The artists included in the exhibition speak to these critical questions on a formal and conceptual level, uncovering both W ally D io n , The S le e p o f R e a s o n P rod u ce s M on s te rs , 2020, gr aphite o n p ape r. C o u rt es y o f t h e a r ti s t. P h o t o : M ar c N ew t o n. physical borders and those that exist in our subconscious and unconscious. The works in this exhibition consider how we live with the land and with each other, exposing privilege, reciprocity and erasures. Bringing together 34 artists and collectives across two provinces and five treaty territories, borderLINE calls attention to what is at stake when borders are drawn and where borders are contested. borderLINE consists of two concurrent exhibitions in and Edmonton. Remai Modern’s exhibition features Judy Anderson and Cruz Anderson, Cindy Baker, Elisabeth Belliveau, Heather Benning, Lisa Birke, Bill Burns, Thirza Jean Cuthand, Wally Dion, Blair Fornwald and Nic Wilson, Don Gill, Laura Hale, Laura Kinzel, Michèle Mackasey, Barbara Meneley, Tim Moore, Lyndal Osborne, Nurgül Rodriguez, and Laura St. Pierre.

MARQUEE GALLERY ON LEVEL 3 August 6, 2020–January 3, 2021

SHANNON TE AO KA MUA, KA MURI

Ka mua, ka muri is co-commissioned by Remai Modern and Oakville Galleries, with the support of Creative New Zealand. Organized by Rose Bouthillier, Curator (Exhibitions).

Ka mua, ka muri is a new moving image project by Aotearoa New Zealand-based artist Shannon Te Ao (Ngāti Tūwharetoa), exploring our experience in time, history and song. The title is derived from a whakatauki (proverb) often cited as a central guiding principle within Māori ideology. Meaning “to walk backwards into the future,” it suggests that time exists on a continuum where past, present and future co-exist and are inherently tethered through ancestry and action.

The exhibition consists of a two-channel film, which uses the road-trip movie genre as its starting point, about two sisters in the immediate wake of an unnamed tragic event. Within the simple setting of their moving vehicle, the protagonists deliver two separate verses that consider ways of understanding the temporality of our lived and understood experience, cited through events within both the natural and spiritual realms. Following Te Ao’s most recent work, what was or could be today (again) (2019), these songs were developed in collaboration with Kurt Komene (Te Ātiawa, Taranaki Whānui).

Te Ao often uses the processes of translation to invite shared authorship and a multiplicity of voices. At the heart of the exhibition is an acknowledgement of the critical importance of language as a vital means to maintain links to Indigenous knowledge systems, culture and identity.

Shannon Te Ao, Ka mua, ka muri, 2019, production still, two-channel video installation with sound. Courtesy of the artist and Mossman, Wellington.

FEATURE GALLERY ON LEVEL 3 October 24, 2020–February 21, 2021 ZADIE XA

Moon Poetics 4 Courageous Earth Critters and Dangerous Day Dreamers Created with support from Remai Modern and Leeds Art Gallery. Organized by Rose Bouthillier, Curator (Exhibitions).

Zadie Xa and Benito Mayor Vallejo, installation view, Child of Magohalmi and the Echoes of Creation, De La Warr Pavilion, UK, 2020. Photo: Rob Harris. Courtesy of the artists. Zadie Xa combines elements of sculpture, light, sound and performance to create immersive multimedia installations. Drawing from a range of fields including ecology, science fiction and ancient religions, she explores how beings imagine and inhabit their worlds. The gallery acts as a vessel or environment, in which stories are told through encounters with human, animal and supernatural presences.

Born and raised in Vancouver and now based in London, UK, Xa is informed by her experiences within the Korean diaspora. Forces of distance and relation—familial, cultural, spiritual—are at play in a process of continual becoming. Xa’s work bursts with colour, geometric camouflage and a density of symbols from her evolving personal iconography, including sea shells, knives and flames.

For her exhibition at Remai Modern, the artist’s first solo museum project in Canada, Xa presents a new body of work highlighting the material and tactile aspects of her practice, featuring masks, garments and sculptural pieces with sound. The exhibition furthers Xa’s ongoing engagement with the powerful complexities of interspecies communication, matriarchal social structures and ancestral homelands.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

The Connect Gallery is always free thanks to the generous support of TD.

CONNECT GALLERY ON LEVEL 1 respectfulchild

Organized by Rose Bouthillier, Curator (Exhibitions)

The annual RBC Emerging Artist Series provides support for the production of a new work at Remai Modern. The projects take place in different areas of the museum and may include site- specific installations, interventions or performances.

respectfulchild is an interdisciplinary artist born, raised, and living as an uninvited guest on Treaty 6 Territory. Their work explores the quiet tensions and chaotic beauty of being a queer Chinese settler on the prairies, ranging from spontaneous improvisation to meticulous composition. For their project at Remai Modern, respectfulchild is developing an on-site installation culminating in a public performance. More details will be announced in September. respectfulchild performs at the Music Awards. Photo: Chris Graham Photography.

Remai Modern is eager to return to hosting live programs and events, including performances, talks, tours, films and so much more. To give guests and staff an opportunity to adjust to new guidelines and safety measures, a return to regular programming will be phased in over the next several months. Please visit remaimodern.org/calendar for the most current information about what’s coming up. On view until September 27

: ANATOMY OF A STILL LIFE Curated by Sandra Fraser, Curator (Collections)

Pablo Picasso explored the still life throughout his long career, stating "I want to tell something by means of the most common object." Remai Modern’s collection of Picasso’s linocuts includes a large number of working proofs that have rarely been exhibited, offering intimate insight into the artist’s creative process.

On view October 10 PICASSO LINOCUTS : DRAWING IN COLOUR

Curated by Frederick Mulder and Anne-Françoise Gavanon

Remai Modern holds the most complete set of Pablo Picasso’s linocuts in the world and is delighted to present an exhibition that shows Picasso’s mind at work.

Picasso’s appetite for technical challenges was matched by Hidalgo Arnéra, his young printer. The two men were driven by similar values: imagination, mutual respect and love of a job well done. This chronological exhibition demonstrates Picasso’s innovation and ingenuity in mastering printing in colour, which he achieved through both the one-block-per-colour method and the reductive technique.

Spanning the years 1955 to 1968, Drawing in Colour follows the various stages of Picasso’s process with linocut prints, which are presented alongside ceramics that he created in the same period, thereby highlighting the role of Pablo Picasso, Portrait de Jeune Fille d’après Cranach le Jeune 11, 1958, collaboration in his oeuvre. linocut, 63 x 53 cm. Collection of Remai Modern. Gift of the Frank and Ellen Remai Foundation 2012. © Picasso Estate / SOCAN (2020)

PICASSO GALLERY ON LEVEL 3 On view until January 24, 2021 NEXT YEAR’S COUNTRY

Curated by Sandra Fraser, Curator (Collections)

Next Year’s Country re-examines ideas of place, belonging and history through a wide range of Canadian artists in Remai Modern’s outstanding permanent collection. Some of the artists have deep roots in the Prairies, while others convey similar experiences and offer a view of this region from a distance. The exhibition uses the historical prairie perspective “next year things will be better” to frame an impulse to resist the present moment and the anxieties that accompany it. How might this impulse generate a desire to return to the past or to dream of the future? The Dana Claxton, Momma’s Got a Pony Girl… (Named History and Sets Her Free), 2008, Light Jet C-print, 156 x 126 cm. The Mendel exhibition considers ideas about Art Gallery Collection at Remai Modern. Gift of the artist, 2019. collectivity and progress with an eye to current environmental, economic and political issues.

COLLECTION GALLERIES ON LEVEL 2

August 6–October 12

BRIDGET MOSER

MY CROPS ARE DYING BUT MY BODY PERSISTS

Curated by Troy Gronsdahl, Associate Curator (Live Programs)

Remai Modern presents a new solo exhibition by Canadian artist Bridget Moser. One of the country’s leading young artists, Moser has received national recognition for her satirical performance and video projects. Drawing from prop comedy, experimental theatre and performance art, Moser uses humour to explore themes of futility and failure, confusion and loneliness, and the general awkwardness of being alive. This work for Remai Modern marks her first major solo museum exhibition in Canada. The Connect Gallery is always free thanks to the generous support of TD.

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Ceramic sculpture by Vic Cicansky. Photo: Carey Shaw

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This August, Remai Modern will welcome 370 new members. In June, we launched You Inspire Us, an initiative aimed at thanking essential workers for keeping us safe, healthy and fed during the pandemic. We were overwhelmed by the response, both from individuals who wanted to donate memberships and from essential workers who were interested in becoming members. Remai Modern is happy to have matched every donation made by a member of the public during this inspiring campaign and to have offered a complimentary one-year membership to every essential worker who applied. 102 Spadina Crescent East Adjusted hours Saskatoon, SK, Canada, S7K 0L3 Monday closed Tuesday closed Wednesday closed Call (306) 975-7610 Thursday 10 AM–5 PM Email [email protected] Friday 10 AM–5 PM Visit remaimodern.org Saturday 10 AM–5 PM Follow Sunday 10 AM–5 PM

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