Annie Pootoogook

"Her art challenged viewer expectations of igloos and dog teams and instead revealed our 'matchbox' houses, laminate-floored and sparsely decorated; the Northern Store with its refrigerators lined with freezer-burned frozen dinners; the quiet activity of the printshop; or lazy afternoons spent watching trashy daytime televisionimported from far away. . . . Her images de-exoticized the Arctic. Yet, at the same time, they highlighted how little the South truly knows about the experience of life in the North."