Winning Project: Called Repatriation/Reconciliation, Florence’s project explores more sensitive ways to repatriate and appreciate cultural objects taken from Indigenous communities by colonial institutions and individuals.
JURY COMMENT:
Conscious of her outsider status in an Indigenous community in Saguenay, Quebec; her consultation with Ilnuatsh women produced compelling research on an alternative to “immutable and monumental” architecture. Instead, she shows that authenticity can lie in knowledge of traditional ways of building rather than in the imposing structures typical in heritage conservation.