Marcia Pitch, The Invisible Woman
Montréal
May 5 -
May 27, 2023
Detritus found in back alleys
Rusted rickety twisted metal
Looping hoses
Panty hose pantyhose
Silicone plastic trapped Dolly
Limbs. Limbs upon limbs
Plastic pictured photos torn
Red. Other colours but mostly red
Sand
Strange and disparate objects and imagery are joined and fused into discordant collages and sculptures in Marcia Pitch’s exhibition The Invisible Woman. Across her practice and in the selection of work presented at McClure Gallery, Pitch plays off content that is tongue-in-cheek yet dark and haunting, and ultimately speaks to a series of core concerns centred around care and grief in the face of mental illness and the invisibility of ageing women.
Much of the artist’s life has been dedicated to caregiving––as a mother to three children and a volunteer at COAST, a mental health care out-patient facility in downtown Vancouver. Pitch has described her practice as the dismembering and reconstructing of things. Evident across her paper-based and sculptural collages, the artist’s act of dismembering images and detritus reinvigorates them, opens them to new discursive understandings. Speaking to the invisibility that older women face, the artist is dedicated to exploring women’s desire and pleasure, revelling in the female form by being coyly suggestive. Sex & Death (2021), Sexy Wallpaper (2021), Somersault (2021) and The Red Cloth (2020) demonstrate the unabashed exuberance and joy of exploring women’s bodies in all their loose fleshy wonder and sumptuous excretions, in all
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