Rosalie Favell and the Search for Herself
Hyperallergic interviews Ottawa-based Métis artist Rosalie Favell as part of its 2026 Pride Month series on queer and trans elder artists, focusing on how she used family and personal archives to understand her identity. Favell, who says she “came out as a lesbian before” coming out as an Indigenous woman, works with autobiographical photography, personal text, and digital collage to explore ancestry, sexuality, and belonging. A traveling retrospective, “Rosalie Favell: Belonging (1982–2024),” marking 40 years of her practice, is on view at the Art Gallery of Algoma through June 20 and is scheduled to open at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery on August 8. In the interview, she discusses beginning photography in her teens and researching her Métis heritage in her early 20s, including genealogical proof and family history connected to Cree ancestry and the Métis struggle for recognition in Canada.
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This story was covered in Lost Masterpieces and a Market’s Identity Crisis