Visual Art

Screwdriver for Mary

Screwdriver for Mary takes place in TRUCK Contemporary Art, screening a new video work and installation that is built on the memories of maternal care, touch, soap bubbles. The imprints of care one receives dissolves through time to integrate into a larger weave of one’s being. Its assurance looms writ large as memory, promise, or reciprocation. 

Presented in partnership with TRUCK Contemporary Art.


ARTIST
Marika Vandekraats

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Marika Vandekraats is a visual artist currently based in her home city of Vancouver. She previously lived in Rotterdam, NL, where she began experimentation into performances and site-specific based work. Currently, her work focuses on the human personalities given to non-human elements in life. Through assemblage Vandekraats questions the assumed actions and expectations of commonplace objects. She pushes such expectations until the objects exhaust their own functions and begin to produce something anew. Marika Vandekraats received her BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2016 and currently works at the James Black Gallery.

This work opens at 3:00pm on Friday, June 22 at TRUCK Contemporary art and runs during normal gallery hours until July 14.

This work was created alongside a performance by Marika Vandekraats entitled Washing Hands with Soap in the Shape of My Mother’s Hands, taking place at Central Memorial Park on June 23.