What do reindeer on the tundra have to do with Máret Anne Sara’s art for the Venice Biennale?

Everything. For Máret Ánne Sara, reindeer are both the subject and the material of her work; indeed, they are central to life itself. For reindeer-herding families, the animals are not mere livestock. 

“There’s a different way of thinking and being between an Indigenous perspective and a typical western orientation,” she says. “For us, the reindeer is actually a very close relative. Humans, nature and animals are interdependent and equal. So destroying any part of this is like suicide from our perspective.

 What’s happening to the reindeer is our story as well.”

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