Hot and devious
I paint my eyelids
and my mouth makes
a hard red * o *
If this is a dancefloor
I am 10000 refractions
of low hanging light
I sway
Slop warm jelly
down my front
Press a cool spoon
to my temple
Drop crystalware
just to watch it glint
I did this dance
in a dream once and
now I just follow thru
the motions
Will you applaud me?
Throw me a
wet bouquet?
I feel stained
by all of the things
that have rubbed
up against me
Yet still I remain,
My nose pressed
firmly in a corner
I did not come here
under a guise of tenderness
I came with patent heels
and a cold wish
I am diabolical I am
brilliant I am a piece of foam

— Natalie Podaima

A glass half empty, a shoe half filled is Emma Mayer’s first solo exhibition. Through a process of collection, curation, and transformation, Mayer presents an amalgamation of misremembered events, melancholic nostalgia and strange objects. Disjointed narratives and clownish characters interact with pseudo-pastoral scenes, cutting calm with confusion. Mayer focuses on skewing scale and manipulating sound and moving image to create an assemblage of disparate, yet harmonious imagery drawn from domestic settings, interior life, and memory.

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About Emma Mayer

Emma Mayer is an emerging interdisciplinary artist and writer from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She graduated with a BFA Hons. from the University of Manitoba in 2018 and, most recently, was a participant in the 2018/19 iteration of aceartinc.’s Cartae Open School. Presently she works across a variety of media including sculpture, photo, video and installation.

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Sponsors

With the generous support of the Winnipeg Arts Council with funding from the City of Winnipeg

Special thanks to our community sponsor, Video Pool Media Arts Centre

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Review by Luther Konadu for Akimbo