“What We Are Made Of”
by: Maria Hupfield
My son and I were working on a stop-motion animation that involved drawings etched in flour. Looking at his hands, it occurred to me how foreign the flour and hands appeared, and how both were transformed in an instant, into sculpture with texture, form, light. We began to try different foods from our kitchen, aware of each physical experience. We took a closer look, to really consider the items that we are so quick to put in our bodies on our bodies.
- palm
- brown sugar
- butter
- flour
- peanut
- ketchup
- mustard
- jam
- blueberry
- chocolate
- sugar
- back
Biography
Maria Hupfield is a graduate of the MFA program at York University, and holds a BA Specialist in Art and Art History from the University of Toronto and Sheridan College. Her work was featured in the 2011 winter edition of Black Flash Magazine on performance photography. Recent exhibitions include a solo at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba and with the Crossing Collective as part of a performance exchange between Bbeyond Artist Collective, Belfast Ireland and SAW Gallery, Ottawa.
Maria is of Anishnaabe (Ojibway) heritage, and a member of Wasauksing First Nation, in Ontario. She is currently based in Brooklyn, NY.
Artist Statement“My work evidences the body as a site of resistance and agency through the use of actions, objects and images. Working across disciplines allows me to engage in intersecting points of dialogue between Western and non-Western visual representations and philosophical approaches. I am interested in the ways in which our relationships to the natural world and one another are shaped through the systems of measurement we use to divide, chart, and build the world in which we live.
