Exhibitions

Meryl McMaster: Confluence

May 2 - August 28, 2016

Meryl McMaster’s potent and alluring photographs explore the fluid domain of identity, and the possibilities of examining and revisioning the self and its representation.

Placing her body centrally in front of the camera, McMaster transforms her appearance, whether by layering photographic images onto her body or through elaborate costumes and props she creates and inhabits as alter egos.

Of Plains Cree and Euro-Canadian heritage, McMaster explores the dimensions of her own sense of identity, and the complex history of the photographic representation of Indigenous peoples.

The three bodies of work in Confluence collectively trace the evolution of McMaster’s practice, with its recurrent thematic threads.