In pockets, postscripts, peonies Eurich investigates the ethics and hierarchies of labour associated with domestic space, as well as how we inhabit and populate this space through the mediation of language and the accumulation of objects. In this show she presents work that: is cast, is solid, is hollow but appears solid, is surprisingly heavy, is semi-transparent, is only partially visible, is text-based, is based on instructions, is ambiguous, has hidden components, is influenced by interior designer Dorothy Draper, makes references to surrealism, is autobiographical, could be functional, functions as a vessel, mimics the real, contains the real, is a remaking of a tool, is monochromatic, is paired down, is placed gently, lives in a pocket, points to a threshold, shifts in the wind.

Eurich would like to acknowledge the support of the Canada Council of the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. She would also like to thank the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography, where she undertook research into the relationship between sculpture and type.

Liza Eurich completed her BFA from Emily Carr University in 2010 and her MFA from Western University in 2012. She co-founded and organizes the online publication Moire, as well as the project space Support. She recently completed international residencies at SIM in Reykjavik (IS), Acme Studios in London (UK) and GSS in Glasgow (UK). Represented by MKG127 in Toronto, her work has been exhibited at Stride, Open Studio, G Gallery, Neutral Ground, Plug-In, and the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery. She currently resides in London, Ontario.

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Kim Neudorf, “pockets, postscripts, peonies,” The Peripheral Review, October 4, 2022.