A number of
the Canadian artworks on view received their initial reception outside of the country, for example, Shelagh Keeley's 75 - foot long wall drawing German notes / after Lucretius / de rerum natura (2013), originally conceived for the Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany.
The many
Canadian, Indigenous and international contemporary
artworks on view in the 2017
Canadian Biennial offer forms of worldly engagement between Canada and the global histories within which the complex fabric of the nation is connected.