In Conversation - Katherine Boyer

A recording of our In Conversation Series talk with artist, Katherine Boyer. This conversation introduces Boyer’s work in the exhibition, How the Sky Carries the Sun, on display at MJM&AG September 22-December 31, 2023.Event recorded September 22, 2023.
How the Sky Carries the Sun is a universe that extends beyond the artist's complex and seemingly dichotomous identity (Métis and white Settler). This exhibition explores Boyer's internalized dualities, expressed as the relationship between the sun and the sky. Boyer uses the exhibition title as an invisible through-line for structural support to explore the edges of a Queer, Métis phenomenology, that helps the artist ask "Am I the sky or am I the sun?", an important question about disorganized experiences and self-consciousness. Placing hard and soft components in complementary and mutually supportive relationships that lay the ground for this internal, yet critical, dialogue, How the Sky Carries the Sun presents installation-based work that allows Boyer to rotate between process and materials: traditional beading suspended on free-standing, wooden structures, cyanotypes depicting garden plants, lightboxes that use quilting but act as trusses, and knots that close obsessive cycles of labour.

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great video i like it.