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Máret Ánne Sara

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Máret Ánne Sara
Born (1983-12-23) December 23, 1983 (age 40)[1]
Hammerfest, Norway[1]
OccupationArtist and author
LanguageSami
NationalityNorwegian
EducationArts University Bournemouth
Website
maretannesara.com

Máret Ánne Sara (born 1983) is a Sami artist and author born in Norway. She lives and works in Kautokeino Municipality.

Early life and education

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Máret Ánne Sara was born in Hammerfest Municipality and grew up in Finnmark county in a reindeer herding family that had its summer pasture on Kvaløya.[2]

She received her education in art from Arts University Bournemouth in the United Kingdom.[3]

Art

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Sara's art focuses on Sami identity and livelihood, specifically as it relates to reindeer herding.[4][5] For example, "Spirals of the Pile" (2018) uses reindeer jaws and "Gielstuvvon" (2018) uses lassos.[4][6]

Sara's work was shown at the Sami Pavilion during the 59th International Art Exhibition of the 2022 Venice Biennial. Included pieces were "Gutted – Gávogálši" (2022) which uses reindeer stomachs, "Ale suova sielu sáiget" (2022), which uses cured reindeer calves and tundra plants, and "Du-ššan-ahttanu-ššan", which uses reindeer sinew.[5][6][7] "Gutted – Gávogálši" was bought by the National Museum of Norway later that year.[8]

Also in 2022, Sara was part of the Arctic/Amazon show at the Power Plant gallery in Toronto, Canada.[9]

Pile O'Sapmi

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"Pile O'Sapmi" was created in 2016 in response to the Norwegian government's culling of reindeer belonging to Sapmi herders.[4][5] The project includes 400 reindeer skulls. [10]It was featured in the documenta 14 exhibition in 2017.[1]

In 2022 "Pile O’Sapmi" was installed in the vestibule of the newly opened National Museum in Oslo[10]

Works

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  • Ilmmiid gaskkas (Between Worlds), young adult fantasy novel, Kautokeino, Norway: DAT, 2013
  • Doaresbealde doali, young adult fantasy novel, Kautokeino, Norway: DAT, 2014

Awards

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She was nominated for the Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize in 2014 for her Sami-language young adult fantasy novel Ilmmiid gaskkas (Between Worlds).[11]

References

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  1. ^ a b c García-Antón, Katya. "Máret Ánne Sara". documenta14. Archived from the original on 5 July 2017. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  2. ^ Palmer, Marion; Sara, Máret Ánne. "Galskap: Ei kjærlighetshistorie" [Madness: A Love Story]. RiddoDuottarMuseat (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 7 April 2017. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  3. ^ "Maret Anne Sara". Nordlys. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  4. ^ a b c "Art as a Political Tool: An Interview with Máret Ánne Sara". Berlin Art Link. 2020-06-09. Archived from the original on 2022-12-18. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  5. ^ a b c Souter, Anna (2022-04-17). "Venice's Sámi Pavilion Is a Coup for Indigenous Artists". Hyperallergic. Archived from the original on 2023-01-13. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  6. ^ a b "Máret Ánne Sara". Office for Contemporary Art Norway. Archived from the original on 2023-02-25. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  7. ^ "The Sámi Pavilion". Office for Contemporary Art Norway. Archived from the original on 2023-02-01. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  8. ^ "Máret Ánne Sara solgte kunstverk til Nasjonalmuseet". NRK (in Norwegian Bokmål). 2022-12-20. Archived from the original on 2023-01-12. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  9. ^ Taylor, Kate (2022-10-05). "Indigenous artists play with scale in Arctic/Amazon show at Power Plant gallery". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 2023-01-12. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  10. ^ a b "Pile o`Sapmi (audio description)". Nasjonalmuseet. Archived from the original on 2022-06-12. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  11. ^ "Máret Ánne Sara". Nordic Council. 2014. Archived from the original on 10 October 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
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