Exhibition: Some Nico Williams show at Ahkwayaonhkeh

In both the pawnshop and the craft shop, there’s always a little something… With his exhibition – or show – Nico Williams creates a space in the middle of the two types of business, a bridge between them. In the window, vintage VHS and video game covers – the objects of choice for pawning – are covered in beadwork. Each of them refers to a stereotypical and erroneous representation of natives. The lamps, acquired by the artist from Lilian’s Craft on Manitoulin Island, are adorned with beaded price tags. The artist appropriates each object with her beads. And it’s with them that he proclaims his reappropriation: of his identity, of the territory.