New Firehall Production Centres on Counterfeit Indigenous Art – The Tyee

Drew Hayden Taylor’s latest play puts questions about identity and authenticity centre stage.

In a world of fakes, who can you trust?

Award-winning Ojibwa playwright, author, journalist and filmmaker Drew Hayden Taylor explores that question by diving into the high-stakes world of counterfeit Indigenous art in The Undeniable Accusations of Red Cadmium Light, a provocative new play produced and presented by the Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver this spring.

“Red Cadmium Light” paint was created in 1982. So when a painting attributed to legendary Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau is dated earlier than that — and contains the pigment — it can only mean one thing: it’s a fake.

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