Marcy Friesen: Daydreamer: Capture Photography Festival

Exhibition Dates

April 18 - May 29, 2024

Fazakas Gallery, 659 East Hastings St, Vancouver, BC

Opening Reception

Thurs April 18, 5-7 PM

Curated by LaTiesha Fazakas

Daydreamer is an exhibition of new works by artist Marcy Friesen featuring photography, ephemera, poems, and audio recordings of the artist's streams of consciousness.

In this body of work, Friesen invites the viewer to drift seamlessly between wakefulness and dreaming on a journey of the spirit captured by her camera lens. Scenes of the peaceful, endless prairie sky evoke the endless, lazy days of childhood summers. Here, thoughts can drift and consciousness ebbs and flows, offering a sensory evocation of the breeze and grass that feature both land and body. Her lens-based works simultaneously emanate a sense of place and no place, of personal and universal.

Friesen writes, "it all started with a prayer...then I heard...bead your lips...so I beaded my lips...then I heard...bead your face...so I beaded my face...then I beaded hands...I beaded my feet...skin beading...the process is soothing...I love the feel...I love the process...and the look..."

This exhibition is part of the 2024 Capture Photography Festival Selected Exhibitions Program.