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Tarralik Duffy’s art reflects themes of home, longing, and the complex beauty of everyday life in the North. Klik My Heels, her first solo exhibition in Saskatchewan, features recent digital drawings and soft sculptures that evoke personal and collective cultural memories, tracing her journey from Salliq (Coral Harbour), NU to Saskatoon, SK, where she now resides.

Duffy’s work often focuses on household items that arrived in Inuit communities through colonial import—staples like flour, tea, baking powder, and canned goods. She describes this process as being ‘colonized by condiments,’ a wry observation that underscores the disruptive impact of these products on traditional hunting and fishing practices, as well as their lasting health consequences. Rendered as oversized soft sculptures in leather or as brightly coloured, often repeating prints, Duffy transforms these pantry staples into cultural icons. Their familiarity in northern communities echoes how 20th-century pop artists celebrated and critiqued American culture through mass-produced items. Yet, unlike the universally shared consumer culture those artists assumed, Duffy’s works carry distinct personal, cultural, and historical meaning. In her hands, these items become more than everyday products—they are love letters to home. Each work evokes her memories of growing up in Salliq in the 1980s, when southern pop culture mingled with the rise of Inuit self-representation in media.

The exhibition’s title references two soft sculptures: Klik (2023), the canned luncheon meat, and a pair of kamiik (Inuktitut for “boots”) made from red leather. Echoing the ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz, Duffy’s kamiik similarly symbolize magic, belonging, transformation, and inner strength. Unlike the imported goods she reclaims as cultural objects, however, these kamiik originate from home, drawing inspiration from her mother’s red leather high heels, her father’s kamiik, and patterns shared by relatives and women in her community.