Stores
Artist
Liz Magor
(Canadian, born 1948)
Date2000
Mediumplaster, resin, vegetables
DimensionsOverall: 154.7 × 83.3 cm (60 7/8 × 32 13/16 in.)
Credit LineThe Mendel Art Gallery Collection at Remai Modern. Purchased with the assistance of the Mendel Gallery Group, 2002.
Object number2002.6.a-b
Classificationsinstallation
On View
Not on viewFor over 40 years Liz Magor has produced a body of work utilizing sculpture and photography to explore notions of memory, history, shelter, and survival. Often through realistic casts of humble objects, Magor’s work explores both natural and domestic themes, evoking forms of refuge that also confound the boundary between the real and the imagined.
In Stores, what appears to be a sheet of plywood and a damaged sheet of drywall lean together against the wall. This banal and random arrangement is actually fabricated from cast plaster and resin. Magor challenges viewers to look beyond their assumptions of objects by presenting things in new contexts. The simulated construction materials quizzically contrast with grocery bags of real vegetables hidden behind it. The sculpture is an open-ended provocation and a comment on the precarious and transient nature of contemporary society.
In Stores, what appears to be a sheet of plywood and a damaged sheet of drywall lean together against the wall. This banal and random arrangement is actually fabricated from cast plaster and resin. Magor challenges viewers to look beyond their assumptions of objects by presenting things in new contexts. The simulated construction materials quizzically contrast with grocery bags of real vegetables hidden behind it. The sculpture is an open-ended provocation and a comment on the precarious and transient nature of contemporary society.
