Maya Stovall: Compulsion and Heart

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Maya Stovall, "The Public Library, vol. 1, no. 5, choreographic photographs: Untitled 1 (“Spyglass”)," 2018

Artist Talk: Friday, November 2 at 7pm

Opening: Friday, November 2 at 8pm

Maya Stovall: Compulsion and Heart places the artist’s Saskatoon centered project, The Public Library (2018-ongoing), in dialogue with her global practice and bodies of work. The Public Library, a series of video and photo documented conceptual performances and discussions in the streets and sidewalks surrounding Saskatoon’s downtown public library branch, emerged during Stovall’s artist residency at AKA.

Equally anthropological research and conceptual art practice, in The Public Library, the artist meditates the politics of space and place in a fraught and complex city. In Maya Stovall: Compulsion and Heart, for the first time, the artist’s Liquor Store Theatre (2014-17) and Water City (2018-ongoing) projects, each meditating on the complexities of city life in Detroit, Michigan, are placed in direct dialogue with her Saskatoon works, provoking a dialogue between the two cities and the two countries, and the people on the streets and sidewalks who make the art and life of a city happen, day in and day out.