Little Sunday – Mara Eagle
March, 2014
Window Box Gallery
Mara Eagle is an emerging artist who lives and works in Montreal.Through painting, drawing and sculpture her work explores questions of familiarity and estrangement: how repetition and memory can render familiar forms, materials, and traditions distant and symbolic.
Her sculptural work is often fiber-based and references the cultural content of the home. Themes of sexuality, silence, memory, care, the forgotten, the denied, the abandoned and the repaired are expressed through repetitive modes of sewing, crocheting, cutting, tearing, knotting and re-knotting.
Eagle’s sculpture Little Sunday is constructed from pieces of discarded blankets and yarn. The use of these repurposed materials emphasizes the personal and the handmade, and calls attention to the way objects and materials become charged with an emotional intensity and memory as they accumulate traces of the human body and identity. Little Sunday aims to capture a sense of nostalgia as it is manifested in “things,” our “cultural detritus” to provoke curiosity, uncertainty and an air of distant familiarity.
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