Lest we Forget

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:58:53 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Posyniak, Teresa

Artwork creator(s):

Posyniak, Teresa

Text author(s):

Posyniak, Teresa

Text author(s):

Posyniak, Teresa

Installation year:

1994

Artwork description

Source: Teresa Posyniak (2008). Domestic Violence. (http://www.teresaposyniak.com/image.php?nodeID=137&ID=10)

Description:

The names of 135 Canadian women murdered since 1989 are written, interspersed with the phrase "lest we forget" throughout the list.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

Names of 135 Canadian women

Lest we forget

Artwork theme:

Death, domestic violence

Dimensions

Height:

2.13m

Width:

Other information

Note(s):

In 1994, Lest We Forget found a permanent home on the University of Calgary campus, through the efforts of Dean of Law Sheilah Martin and some law faculty alumnae. The piece by Calgary artist Teresa Posyniak remembers and protests violence against women through language, motifs of nature and ominous images of deterioration and disappearance. The sculpture, which is close to a storey high but with a broken-off top that suggests its reach could be much higher, sits in the airy main foyer of the Law Building. The location was deliberately chosen to encourage members of the legal profession to be mindful of feminist social justice and legislative inadequacies in the protection of women.

Source: Teresa Posyniak (2008). Domestic Violence.

http://www.teresaposyniak.com/image.php?nodeID=137&ID=10

Artist's biography:

Teresa Posyniak

Présences du littéraire dans l’espace public canadien - Stucco

Lest we Forget

Names of 135 Canadian women