Máret Ánne Sara (born 1983) is a Sami artist and author born in Norway. She lives and works in Kautokeino.
Máret Ánne Sara | |
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| Born | December 23, 1983[1] Hammerfest, Norway[1] |
| Occupation | Artist and author |
| Language | Sami |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Education | Arts University Bournemouth |
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Early life and education
Máret Ánne Sara was born in Hammerfest 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
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
"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
- Ilmmiid gaskkas (Between Worlds), young adult fantasy novel, Kautokeino, Norway: DAT, 2013
- Doaresbealde doali, young adult fantasy novel, Kautokeino, Norway: DAT, 2014
Awards
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]