{"id":19258,"date":"2013-05-22T12:10:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T16:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=19258"},"modified":"2013-07-01T20:26:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T00:26:42","slug":"in-between-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=19258","title":{"rendered":"In-Between Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Meryl McMacter: In-Between Worlds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Victoria_opt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-19123\" title=\"Victoria_opt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Victoria_opt-681x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Victoria_opt-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Victoria_opt-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Victoria_opt-166x250.jpg 166w, https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Victoria_opt.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a>Meryl McMacter, <em>Victoria<\/em>, 2013, Digital Chromogenic Print, 36 x 50 inches<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 27 &#8211; June 1, 2013<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Katzman Kamen Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meryl McMacter is one of the most interesting young photographers working today. Her remarkable work in her <em>Second Self<\/em> series, had me looking forward to her show at Katzman Kamen Gallery. I could relate easily to her photograph in the CONTACT catalogue, <em>Aphoristic currents<\/em>. Layers and layers, rolls of rolls of newspaper surround a young woman\u2019s head\u2014almost to the point of downing. Her face\u2014painted with a Native pattern\u2014is just barely above these \u201cwaves\u201d that represent the teachings of her two different backgrounds: European and Native. Looking at the other images on display, the Native background comes through strongly. Set mostly in winter landscapes, the artist poses in various costumes that call to mind stories of her people in the north. <em>Wingeds calling<\/em> shows a big bird\u2014a totem animal maybe\u2014that purposefully moves to fulfill some call. In a few other images McMaster\u2014in clothing suggestive of traditional dress\u2014performs some ancient ritual (<em>Victoria<\/em>) or becomes the host of a metal bird nest (<em>Harbinger of Sudden Departure<\/em>). These staged images are very cold and even the bloodiest is somewhat quiet. Regardless their strong narrative, they radiate solitude.<\/p>\n<p>Emese Krun\u00e1k-Hajagos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Emese Krun\u00e1k-Hajagos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These staged images are very cold and even the bloodiest is somewhat quiet. Regardless their strong narrative, they radiate solitude.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=19258\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-briefs","category-emese-krunak-hajagos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19258"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19260,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19258\/revisions\/19260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}