Liz Magor
Born in 1948 at Winnipeg, Canada
Liz Magor questions our intimate relationships with the objects and products of consumer society that surround us—such as by giving a second life to second-hand clothes or old blankets—in order to reveal their emotional, sentimental, and social charge. Her ontological explorations deal with the ordinary and the familiar which she decontextualizes and recontextualizes by associating them with facsimiles of everyday objects. Her work is based on the reuse of artefacts that bear the patina of their experience and the traces of their former use. Liz Magor intervenes on these elements to repair them, to fill in their cracks and wounds without distorting the memory of the society and people that created, used, and then discarded them.
Born in 1948 in Winnipeg, Liz Magor studied at the University of British Columbia and the Parsons School of Design in New York. She lives and works in Vancouver.
Born in 1948 in Winnipeg, Liz Magor studied at the University of British Columbia and the Parsons School of Design in New York. She lives and works in Vancouver.
