EXHIBITION: Crèche by Meags Fitzgerald (Calgary, April 6-11; Reception April 9)

by becky

Mar 30th, 2009

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Itinerant (sometimes Torontnian) art/craft artist, Meags Fitzgerald is premiering the fruits of her last year’s labours in Calgary this week. Her entire BFA year has been taken over by the process of recreating the room in which she was born through various handicraft techniques. In Meags’ own words:

Crèche is a show that I have dedicated my last year of my BFA to making.

Meags Fitzgerald’s installation, Crèche, visits a simulacrum of her parents’ bedroom at the time of her homebirth. The artwork addresses maternal lineage, the distortions of memory and personal history [...]

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