Future Hindsight

Future Hindsight presents works from the MacLaren’s Permanent Collection by Ojibwe multi-media artist Carl Beam (1943-2005). Entangling symbols for human, nature, and technology, Beam’s compositions point to the co-existence of everything, on one plane and at one time. His works critique the perception of time as linear, the dominance of Western ways of thinking, and the idea that we are separate from nature. Confronting Canadian colonial history, they bring awareness to the resilience of and modern struggles of Indigenous Peoples. Beam’s works express his spiritual and political concerns, looking simultaneously into the past and future.