Through mixed-media sculpture, Maya Beaudry documents the tactile aspects of a changing city. Her new work thoughtfully surveys how certain structures and features grow obsolete, are slated for expropriation, and disappear. There is a tenderness to how Beaudry witnesses this precarity, printing her photograph of an East Vancouver basement suite on textile and quilting it to give dimension, depth, and softness to this vernacular image. It appears to ripple, the decaled word “DREAM” referencing both the mirage-like texture of the picture and hope in the face of probable demolition. Presenting this imagery of hard exteriors on material associated with interiority, Beaudry plays with contrasts between outside and inside, public and private, creating a work of stunning visual hapticity.

2023
Inkjetprint on cotton, thread, polyfil
Unique
26" x 17"
Estimate: $2,500

Courtesy the artist