Caroline Monnet

Caroline Monnet’s (Algonquin-Anishinaabe and French; b. 1985 in Ottawa, Ontario) site-responsive installation for the Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall accompanies An Indigenous Present, a thematic exhibition spanning 100 years of contemporary Indigenous art. Responding to the ICA’s location at the edge of the harbor, Monnet’s installation is plotted with “blooms” that expand fractal-like, symbolizing Boston’s 400-year history of land reclamation. The land the ICA is built upon is man-made, a constructed environment the artist represents using commercial building materials—like Tyvek, plast…