Tanya Lukin Linklater’s ‘Storm song’ transforms Remai Modern into a place to listen, rest, and encounter the land’s living knowledge.
18 August 2026
What does it mean to listen to weather, not as backdrop, but as knowledge?
Opening at Remai Modern this August, Tanya Lukin Linklater’s ‘Storm song’ brings sound, textiles and places of rest into intimate conversation with the prairie landscape. Commissioned for Carried by rivers, held by lands, the site-responsive installation occupies the museum’s Level 3 Gallery Lounge, looking onto kisiskâciwani-sîpiy, the South Saskatchewan River.
At its centre is a narrative audio work shaped through Lukin Linklater’s relationships and conversations with Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Joely BigEagle-Kequahtooway and Yvonne Tiger. Indigenous women’s experiences of weather, land and memory across the Great Plains emerge alongside an ambient composition attuned to environmental sound and prairie rhythms.
Textiles, wooden benches and spaces for pause create what the artist describes as “felt structures”, atmospheres capable of holding bodies, stories and relations. All-weather canvas, wool blankets and kohkom scarves become part of an installation that asks visitors to slow their attention and consider how knowledge is carried through sensation, memory and place.
Quietly immersive and deeply relational, ‘Storm song’ proposes listening as an embodied act.
This exhibition will be on view at Remai Modern in Saskatoon, from 28 August until 3 December 2026.
