127 x 30.5 cm
AUDIE MURRAY: YOU CAN TRAVEL ALL ALONE OR YOU CAN COME ALONG WITH ME
Sept 27 - Oct 26, 2019
FAZAKAS GALLERY, VANCOUVER, BC
Fazakas Gallery's Tanúyap Project Space is pleased to announce Audie Murray's solo exhibition you can travel all alone or you can come along with me.
Within the context of today's fast-paced and technologically filled way of life, Audie Murray's art asks of its viewers to take a step back and slow down. Inanimate objects ranging from gardening gloves to toilet paper rolls become activated the moment Murray's needle and beads touch their surfaces. Through the artist's intervention, these once functional items are transformed into beautifully ornate and decorative pieces with powerful messages. The finished works beckon the audience to take a second look - to see slowly; to think slowly. 'Slowness' itself becomes a dual process in Murray's practice of creating and the audiences' engagement with the works. Murray's artistic practice, whether beading, casting, or molding, demands that she herself also work slowly, as she carefully manipulates her materials into eloquent designs which, with often humorous connotations, repurpose utilitarian items into new creations that spark contemplation and appreciation. As noted by the artist's close friend and writer Quill Christie-Peters: "To move slowly is to look down at your palms and see swirling stars, to visit the place inside of your heart, to spit out structured time so that you may dance upon its edges. To move slowly is to create in ways that may never take the form of a product, to create beyond the physical, to challenge the hollowness of capitalism by refusing to leave our expansiveness behind."
