A unique travelling exhibit opens at the Western Development Museum in North Battleford Sunday.
The exhibit, titled FEED, takes a familiar form and replaces one material for another. The hay bale, a method of conserving and maximizing crop production, is re-imagined as a way of conserving and maximizing the over-production of clothes.
A release issued by the WDM states the artist responsible for FEED, Mindy Yan Miller, is motivated as much by social relations as aesthetics.
Since graduating from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design with a master’s degree in fine art in 1990, Yan Miller has exhibited across Canada, Europe and United States. Now living in Saskatoon, her work continues to be inspired by themes of labour, identity, loss and commodification.
Her art is rooted in fibre traditions. She frequently uses masses of potent materials to produce large-scale installations. Materials like human hair, animal hides, soda cans and used clothes are manipulated in straightforward ways so their embedded meanings aren't obscured, and play a vital role in her work's overall significance.
FEED is on exhibit at the WDM from Aug. 16 through Nov. 15. It has already been on display at the Saskatoon WDM.
