Meghan Ivany
/ A Fluctuating Charm
2/15/2021
Visible, invisible,
A fluctuating charm
…
A Jelly-Fish
Marianne Moore
1909
01 - About the Artist
Meghan Ivany is currently completing the final year of her BFA in sculpture at the Alberta University of the Arts in Mohkinstsis. She has a complicated relationship with sculpture and photography, with her work rooted in photo-conceptualism and abstraction. Her practice interrogates the confluence of these distinct disciplines and how they can co-exist beyond their historical boundaries. By using sculpture and photography concurrently to examine our relationships to objects, her work seeks to decontextualize the mundane and ordinary and detach things from culturally encoded assumptions of value and utility.
02 - About the Work
My sculptural practice uses photography as a means of object-making. Photography is more to sculpture than simply the documentation of work; the photo can become the object, unseating the sculpture to a position of referent.
I use photography as a method of abstraction, to subvert how a particular material is received, in this case paper. Through experimentation with photographic methods, I de-familiarize materials from mundane, giving them a space to be engaged with on a level separate from assumption as to their potential.
Through this process, I explore the limits and problems of representation. By becoming unfamiliar with something so commonplace, I highlight the overlooked beauty of things when they are given a moment to be considered as more than the utility or value they’ve been assigned.
