A dark cloud moved in over the REDress project at its stop at Acadia University in Nova Scotia.
The art project, put together by Winnipeg-based Métis artist Jaime Black, honours and represents missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. There had been 10 red dresses hanging outside the university’s art gallery, and now there are only two.
"Within a few days of the exhibition being up, half of the dresses we put up were either damaged or they were completely stolen all together," Laurie Dalton, the gallery’s curator and director, told CBC News.
Via cbc.ca
Incidents of vandalism have occurred since that first week and no one has any idea what happened or who is responsible for the damaged and missing dresses.
It’s the darkest kind of irony, with parts of the moving and sombre exhibit honouring women who’ve been stolen also having been stolen.
"It's been quite difficult for us to kind of process what these dresses that already represent, you know, a disembodied lost woman have now themselves been taken," Dalton said.
The art gallery will be holding a public discussion over the vandalism on November 13. Read more about the incidents, via CBC News, here.
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