Marjatta Itkonen: Touch

Mission-based artist Marjatta Itkonen presents her recent project Touch. As one of five children and a mother of four, like many women artists of her generation, Itkonen has been required to balance the creative impulse against the demands of family life. For Touch, she creates figurative paper sculptures that recall her relationship with her mother, who remained in Finland when she came to Canada in 1972. Her treatment of domestic subject matter and adeptness with human form culminate in poignant visions of the persistence of familial relationships across time and space.