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The Mendel Art Gallery has a history of collecting the works of such artists. The works of Rebecca Belmore and Robert Houle address the loss of life caused by colonization. Houle also, along with Ruth Cuthand and Carl Beam, explores the destruction of identity caused by the aftermath of colonization. Using humour as a tactic, Ernest Lindner tackles nuclear war as an absurd but deadly threat, while Suzy Lake co-opts the visual and material language of cosmetics to satirize representations of women. And while Molly Lamb Bobak depicts the organization of activists, James Thornsbury offers a complex metaphorUsed in art as in speech. A term, regularly used for one object, is used for another and suggests a likeness between to the two. for the dangers of human conflict.
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