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Maya Fuhr Living In A Material World

May 1 – June 12, 2021
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Maya Fuhr, Rolls and Rolls, 2019, 24 x 24 in. Courtesy of the artist and Patel Brown Gallery
Maya Fuhr, Untitled, 2020, 20 x 25 in. Courtesy of the artist and Patel Brown Gallery.
Maya Fuhr, Gabriolla Negative, 2020, 24 x 24 in. Courtesy of the artist and Patel Brown Gallery
Maya Fuhr, Laundry, 2019, 24 x 24 in. Courtesy of the artist and Patel Brown Gallery.

Recording the fabric of clothing and other related materials, Fuhr examines the relationship with textiles of dress, coalescing the geographic anatomy of the clothing we wear each day. This series of works traces the steps of a garment’s lifespan through a process of investigation following the factory creation. Balanced on the systems of creation—the production of a final product is considered. The altered space between image and concept describe a gradiated boundary concerning whether clothing can ever be inactive. A performance of transformation takes place.

Fuhr is handling the increasingly expansive materiality and fluidity of form within the familiar to reveal substances of newness’. Studying the process of creation, at each step the material at hand is metabolized by its environment at a pace unique to the world’s experience of it. What is the living memory of an object’s material form? The intimacy and sensuality construed within our relationships with our clothing are met with the tactile realities surrounding their Meaning-making.

– Dusty Lee Norsworthy

Curated by Jennifer Morton

Frida Orupabo Woman with book / Woman with snake

460 King St W

Collage-based murals that confront and dismantle historically destructive forces against Black women...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Erik Kessels & Thomas Mailaender Play Public

The Bentway

An interactive playscape brings archival images of an iconic fairground into a...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Jimmy James Evans, Jeff Bierk For Jimmy

Billboard - Dupont & Perth, Dupont & Emerson Billboards

A declaration of love from Jeff Bierk to his collaborator, Jimmy James...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Thirza Schaap Plastic Ocean

Davisville Subway Station

Addressing environmental waste through photographs of elaborate sculptures constructed from discarded plastic...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Kim Hoeckele epoch, stage, shell

Dupont and Dovercourt Billboard

Appropriating large-scale structures normally used for advertising to challenge preconceptions of beauty...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Group Exhibition Force Field

Garrison Common, Fort York

Reimagining a colonial military site as a place of peaceful inclusivity...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Figure as Index

Harbourfront Centre parking pavilion

Deepening community ties through a participatory approach to group photography...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Max Dean and Collaborators Still—Your Bubble

Itinerant Photo Studio

A fully automated portrait studio captures COVID social bubbles for posterity...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Kelly Fyffe-Marshall, Ebti Nabag, Aaron Jones Three-Thirty

Lester B. Pearson CI, Malvern Public Library, Doris McCarthy Gallery

Investigating the way people exercise power through the construction, manipulation, and occupation...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Gods Among Us

Malvern Town Centre

Documenting the unconventional places where newcomers gather to build spiritual, social, and...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs Future Perfect

Metro Hall

Images of an endangered tropical paradise expose the consequences of indifference and...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Botanica Colossi

PAMA

Large-scale images highlight the embedded complexities of everyday plant life ...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Vid Ingelevics & Ryan Walker A Mobile Landscape

Port Lands

Documenting the fluctuating landscape of an extensive revitalization project...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Lili Huston-Herterich, Jenni Crain, Nicole Coon In an Archipelago

Runnymede and Ryding Billboards, Pumice Raft

A billboard project and exhibition focus on the transitory and ephemeral aspects...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Group Exhibition New Generation Photography Award

Ryerson University

Six award-winning emerging photographers convey a broad range of social and personal...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Greg Staats for at least one day, you should continue to breathe clearly

Todmorden Mills

Restoring Indigenous presence to a historical paper mill...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Calico & Camouflage: Assemble!

Yonge-Dundas Square

Activating a populous urban centre with Indigenous signs of protest ...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Maya Fuhr Living In A Material World

The J Spot
Archives 2021 Public Art

Blair Swann The well is deep, you can never fill it

the plumb – vitrines
Archives 2021 Public Art

Laura Kay Keeling The Advantages of Tender Loving Care

Weston GO/UP Station
Archives 2021 Public Art
CorePublic ArtOpen CallArtists
  • Core
  • Public Art
  • Open Call
  • Artists
Archives 2021 Public Art

Maya Fuhr Living In A Material World

May 1 – June 12, 2021
  • Angst
Maya Fuhr, Rolls and Rolls, 2019, 24 x 24 in. Courtesy of the artist and Patel Brown Gallery
Maya Fuhr, Untitled, 2020, 20 x 25 in. Courtesy of the artist and Patel Brown Gallery.
Maya Fuhr, Gabriolla Negative, 2020, 24 x 24 in. Courtesy of the artist and Patel Brown Gallery
Maya Fuhr, Laundry, 2019, 24 x 24 in. Courtesy of the artist and Patel Brown Gallery.

Recording the fabric of clothing and other related materials, Fuhr examines the relationship with textiles of dress, coalescing the geographic anatomy of the clothing we wear each day. This series of works traces the steps of a garment’s lifespan through a process of investigation following the factory creation. Balanced on the systems of creation—the production of a final product is considered. The altered space between image and concept describe a gradiated boundary concerning whether clothing can ever be inactive. A performance of transformation takes place.

Fuhr is handling the increasingly expansive materiality and fluidity of form within the familiar to reveal substances of newness’. Studying the process of creation, at each step the material at hand is metabolized by its environment at a pace unique to the world’s experience of it. What is the living memory of an object’s material form? The intimacy and sensuality construed within our relationships with our clothing are met with the tactile realities surrounding their Meaning-making.

– Dusty Lee Norsworthy

Curated by Jennifer Morton

Frida Orupabo Woman with book / Woman with snake

460 King St W

Collage-based murals that confront and dismantle historically destructive forces against Black women...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Erik Kessels & Thomas Mailaender Play Public

The Bentway

An interactive playscape brings archival images of an iconic fairground into a...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Jimmy James Evans, Jeff Bierk For Jimmy

Billboard - Dupont & Perth, Dupont & Emerson Billboards

A declaration of love from Jeff Bierk to his collaborator, Jimmy James...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Thirza Schaap Plastic Ocean

Davisville Subway Station

Addressing environmental waste through photographs of elaborate sculptures constructed from discarded plastic...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Kim Hoeckele epoch, stage, shell

Dupont and Dovercourt Billboard

Appropriating large-scale structures normally used for advertising to challenge preconceptions of beauty...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Group Exhibition Force Field

Garrison Common, Fort York

Reimagining a colonial military site as a place of peaceful inclusivity...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Figure as Index

Harbourfront Centre parking pavilion

Deepening community ties through a participatory approach to group photography...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Max Dean and Collaborators Still—Your Bubble

Itinerant Photo Studio

A fully automated portrait studio captures COVID social bubbles for posterity...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Kelly Fyffe-Marshall, Ebti Nabag, Aaron Jones Three-Thirty

Lester B. Pearson CI, Malvern Public Library, Doris McCarthy Gallery

Investigating the way people exercise power through the construction, manipulation, and occupation...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Gods Among Us

Malvern Town Centre

Documenting the unconventional places where newcomers gather to build spiritual, social, and...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs Future Perfect

Metro Hall

Images of an endangered tropical paradise expose the consequences of indifference and...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Botanica Colossi

PAMA

Large-scale images highlight the embedded complexities of everyday plant life ...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Vid Ingelevics & Ryan Walker A Mobile Landscape

Port Lands

Documenting the fluctuating landscape of an extensive revitalization project...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Lili Huston-Herterich, Jenni Crain, Nicole Coon In an Archipelago

Runnymede and Ryding Billboards, Pumice Raft

A billboard project and exhibition focus on the transitory and ephemeral aspects...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Group Exhibition New Generation Photography Award

Ryerson University

Six award-winning emerging photographers convey a broad range of social and personal...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Greg Staats for at least one day, you should continue to breathe clearly

Todmorden Mills

Restoring Indigenous presence to a historical paper mill...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Calico & Camouflage: Assemble!

Yonge-Dundas Square

Activating a populous urban centre with Indigenous signs of protest ...

Archives 2021 Public Art

Maya Fuhr Living In A Material World

The J Spot
Archives 2021 Public Art

Blair Swann The well is deep, you can never fill it

the plumb – vitrines
Archives 2021 Public Art

Laura Kay Keeling The Advantages of Tender Loving Care

Weston GO/UP Station
Archives 2021 Public Art

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