"Heyday: Peter Freitag, Kristi Malakoff and Sarah Massecar"
by Mia Johnson
Preview;
Vancouver; April/May 2006, page 34
on the show "Heyday"
of Peter Freitag, Kristi Malakoff and Sarah Massecar
April 1 through May 6, 2006
at ARTSPEAK
233 Carrall Street
Vancouver, BC Canada V6B 2J2
Phone: 604.688 0051
www.artspeak.ca
"Heyday" – a word derived from a Middle Ages exclamation
for pleasure – refers to a peak period of success or power. The
artists in Heyday, a new exhibit at Vancouver’s Artspeak, dismantle
artefacts and scenes from capitalist society, which they consider to be
in its prime. As the curator writes, "Through their processual and
conceptual operations, Freitag, Malakoff and Massecar question the present
moment and capital’s shifting role."
Peter Freitag, a Berlin-based artist, appropriates images from European
resort brochures, then scans and digitally manipulates them in what he
calls "computer-aided interference." By removing some of the
content, lighting effects and other distracting elements, he puts the
emphasis of his vignettes on the interaction between the people who appear
in them. Freitag’s work has been shown in Europe, the United States
and Toronto.
Vancouver artist Kristi Malakoff has a fascination with miniatures.
She obsessively cuts up material like wallpaper, cereal boxes and paper
money and folds it into three-dimensional objects. The desire to bring
things to life is her primary source of inspiration. For Heyday, she has
created birds and a cabin from dollar bills. Malakoff, a recent ECIAD
graduate, has been a recipient of the Governor General’s Award,
the Helen Pitt Award and the Alvin Balkind Memorial Scholarship.
Sarah Massecar deconstructs and reassembles personal objects like wallets,
shoes, furniture and books, then puts them together again in order to
understand "a certain archeology of thought contained and revealed
by each object". Massecar, a Toronto artist, has shown her work in
Canada and the United States.
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