Maya Beaudry: The Pergola
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Contemporary Calgary 701 11 Street SW, Calgary, Alberta
Maya Beaudry, "Fish Painting (Everything Leaks)," 2020
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Jan 20, 2022 Online Artist Talk: Maya Beaudry on The Pergola
Maya Beaudry’s (she/her) site-specific installation The Pergola considers the idea of interiority and containment as it relates to the natural and the built environment. Wrapped in a fabric printed with photographs of dwelling spaces, and buttressed by an organic wire growth, the pergola offers a structural fluidity of being between inside and outside; and between intention and spontaneity.
Beaudry’s practice draws largely on the language of patterns in urban design and architecture. Fused with organic interruptions, she complicates the logic of the grid - that pervasive infrastructure that has become synonymous with urban living, from the block, and city to the pixels on our screens. The Pergola then can also be understood as a portrait of a hypercomplex system that mediates planned and entropic growth, safety and entanglement. It is a way to find meaning in how we inhabit spaces.
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