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Duane Linklater
29.11.2025 – 22.2.2026

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Duane Linklater, teŝipitâkan_cache_1 (detail), 2024, Gerüst, Kulisse, 7 Gemälde, 5 Skulpturen, Performance, 437 x 655 x 320 cm, Ausstellungsansicht, cache, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, 2024, Foto: Rachel Topham Photography, Courtesy Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver

The practice of Duane Linklater explores the conventions of the museum in relation to the current and historical conditions of Indigenous peoples, their objects and approaches to materials. Working across a range of media, including painting, sculpture, and video, he addresses the contradictions of contemporary Indigenous life within and beyond settler systems of knowledge, representation, and value.

 

For his exhibition at the Vienna Secession, Linklater will develop a site-specific yet modular project that revolves around the concept of the cache. With its allusions to collections of a personal nature—the mementos and trinkets that we acquire and display in our homes—as well as to the larger museum complex and its colonial ghosts, a cache speaks to the imbricated histories with which people, objects and ideas are circulated and stored around the world. Closer to home, the concept also refers to two caches that were found in and around Ottawa, the capital of Canada. The first of these was uncovered at the confluence of three major rivers near the city, revealing Indigenous artifacts and quartz tools dating back 10,000 years, while the second cache of precontact objects was found in an office suite directly on Parliament Hill. Of course, these tools will not be taken up in the way they were laid down—their next home is to be decided among local nations and national museums. But the cache is not prescriptive. That which returns from safekeeping resonates with new significance, just as that which we now deposit into the earth will one day return to a cycle transformed.

 

Underpinning the exhibition in Vienna will be a series of towering scaffolds that rise as an inversion within the gallery space. Typically seen on the exterior of buildings in a careful gridding that facilitates the conservation of heritage facades, these scaffolds cluster away from the walls. Entrusted to another form of conservation, domestic objects and familial belongings will be hoisted up and out of reach, awaiting future use. In so doing, Linklater will borrow from inherited cache practices to point to a circularity of energy, temporal rhythms that persist despite the screeching machines and rumbling earthmovers that alter landscapes beyond a seasonal shift.




Künstler*innen
Duane Linklater

geboren 1976 als Omaskêko Ininiwak der Moose Cree First Nation, lebt in North Bay, Ontario

Programmiert vom Vorstand der Secession

Kuratiert von
Damian Lentini

Vereinigung bildender Künstler*innen Wiener Secession
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1010 Vienna
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