Featuring a performance by local experimental, neo-psychedelia brother duo Malcy at 6 pm.
Trophies draws from the Burnaby Art Gallery’s history as a former fraternity house, investigating frat life’s hypermasculine, ritualistic and exclusionary behaviours through classical and contemporary portrayals. Examining the connections between ancient Greek rites and sculpture and contemporary fraternity culture’s visual and performative codes, Myfanwy MacLeod proposes alternative rites and relations. Leaning into the concept of a “trophy” as a marker of achievement, the exhibition offers a nuanced exploration of success, failure and recognition.
Of Welsh and Scottish descent, Myfanwy MacLeod (b. 1961) lives and works in Vancouver. Her artistic practice has resulted in a substantial body of nationally and internationally recognized work, which is held in the public collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery, and City of Burnaby Permanent Art Collection.
Known for works that examine public and private spaces and their relationship to gender, class and the marginalised, MacLeod rethinks hierarchies and intersections between “high” and “low” art forms. Employing various forms of humour to challenge assumptions about gender and value, she delivers a feminist critique of notions of mastery and power.
