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Born in Montreal, René Balcer searches for natural compositions that suggest a sense of disquietude coupled with an implied or hidden narrative. Although several of his works in this exhibition offer sweeping imagery of natural landscapes, the subject of these pieces, and of his work in general, often deals with histories of social injustice around the globe. Specific to the group of works here is a little known history of displaced Inuit communities in northern Canada: in 1953 and 1955, the Canadian government had the RCMP move 92 Inuit people coming from several family groups. Forcefully …