“This is not a picture to show how things are. It's a proposal as to how we connect to what matters and how it comes to matter. It's one of the vital intuitions Liz Magor could be understood to advance in her work: bodies, souls, memories and matter interconnect in peculiar ways and activating this connection may be more strikingly simple than many would believe”.
Jan VerwoertPracticing for over 40 years, Liz Magor (born 1948 in Manitoba, lives and works in Vancouver) has had numerous solo exhibitions including “Surrender”, Iskowitz Award, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2015); “Six Ways to Sunday #06”,
Peep-Hole, Milan (2015); “Liz Magor: A Thousand Quarrels”, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver (2014); “No Fear, No Shame, No Confusion”, Triangle France, Marseille (2013); “I is being This”, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2012); “The Mouth and other storage facilities”, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Simon Fraser University Gallery, Vancouver (2008). Magor exhibited at documenta 8, Kassel, Germany (1987) and represented Canada at the Venice Biennale (1984).
