Marigold Santos: MALAGINTO

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Marigold Santos, "SIOPAO," 2018

ceramic, 22k gold

Marigold Santos: MALAGINTO

Curated by B. Fornwald, Curator, Moving Image and Performance

Artist Talk (ASL Translated) and Reception: FRIDAY, November 8, 6:00 pm, CENTRAL GALLERY

Marigold Santos’ practice explores the ways in which ideas of self-hood can become multiple, fragmented, and dislocated and then reinvented and recreated through a reflection of movement, migration and change. In particular, she returns to the memories associated with her family’s immigration from the Philippines to Canada in the late 80’s as an autobiographical point of departure, and considers the experiences of a young person coming to terms with a new sense of self in relation to their new environment. Negotiating narratives of the past and present results in the creation of a personal myth, a visual vocabulary influenced by the hybrid of Filipino and Western folktales of Santos’ early youth, the Canadian pop culture of the late 80’s and early 90’s, the science and social politics of that period, and the Canadian geography and landscape.

Marigold Santos holds a BFA with Honours from the University of Calgary, and an MFA from Concordia University in Montréal. She is a recipient of numerous awards, including Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts Fellowship, and is a grant 2013 recipient of the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec. Santos has had solo exhibitions in London ON, Calgary, Montreal, St. John’s, Hamilton, Dawson City, Halifax, Winnipeg, and Toronto, and her work is in public and private collections throughout Canada and the United States. She currently resides and practices in Calgary.