Isuma: Isuma
58th International Venice Biennale
May 11–November 24, 2019
In the Canadian pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, the self-titled Isuma exhibition navigates from Igloolik to Baffin Island to Venice, although distance manifests as more than geographical coordinates. Featured most prominently is the collective’s new, 112-minute feature film (2019), which recreates the day in 1961 when the last Inuit family on Baffin Island was coerced by the state to leave their camp to settle in Igloolik. At a number of intervals throughout the exhibition’s run, the screens showing are taken over by a series of live webcasts called (2019), which collapse spatial distance by transmitting video and sound from
