Maggy Hamel-Metsos

Working primarily in sculpture, Maggy Hamel-Metsos’ practice is a negotiation between the singular - the personal and the common - the cultural. The artist is interested in the mechanisms of reduction, expansion and abstraction present in language. While using words in her work, she incorporates those strategies in her material propositions.

Through objects, images and text, Maggy Hamel-Metsos creates new semantic constructions by establishing connections between the personal, the mythological and the historical. The artist often overloads her subjects with meaning in delusional ways and exhumes the ancient image animating them, making the seemingly banal permeated by ancient, affective orvital forces. At the heart of her interests lies the political, understood as the movements from and towards the public and private spheres, amongst a concern for the denomination and a fascination for the child’s psyche.

 

Maggy Hamel-Metsos' studio is sponsored by the generous support of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal in 2023-2024. 

 

 

Biography

Maggy Hamel-Metsos is an artist who works mainly in sculpture with a conceptual approach. Her work has been shown in Europe, Canada and the United States, most recently at Joe Project Gallery in Montreal and Galerie du Nouvel Ontario in Sudbury. The artist was the 2020 Quebec winner of the 1st BMO Art Prize and is represented by Montreal's Eli Kerr Gallery. Maggy Hamel-Metsos holds a BFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University.

 

Recent exhibitions

2024	Views from the plain, solo exhibition, Galerie du Nouvel Ontario, Sudbury, CA
2022	Life’s Marching Band, solo exhibition, Pumice Raft, Toronto, CA Whole Wide World, solo exhibition, Parc Offsite, Montreal, CA
2021	BMO 1st Art Winners Exhibition, group exhibition, Art Museum University of Toronto, Toronto, CA Caretakers, solo exhibition, Parc Offsite, Montreal, CA Untitled, group exhibition, La Station, Montreal, CA
2020	Le Corps Référentiel, group exhibition, Le Livart, Montreal, CA