Maggy Hamel-Metsos


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Working primarily in sculpture, Maggy Hamel-Metsos’ practice is a negotiation between the singular - the personal and the common - and the cultural. She is interested in the mechanisms of reduction, expansion and abstraction present in language and while making use of words in her own work, she incorporates those strategies in her material propositions.Through objects, images and text, new semantic constructions are created by establishing connections between the personal, the mythological and the historical. She often overloads her subjects with meaning in delusional ways and exhumes the ancient image animating them, making the seemingly banal permeated by ancient, and affective 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 denomination and a fascination for the child’s psyche.

Born in 1997, Maggy Hamel-Metsos is an early career artist living and working in Montréal, Canada. Hamel-Metsos holds a BFA in Fine Arts in Studio Arts from Concordia University. Her work has been exhibited and Canada, Germany, and the USA. She is the 2020 Québec recipient of the BMO 1st Art Prize, and the 2023 winner of the Saunderson Prize for Emerging Artists awarded by the Hnatyshyn Foundation. She is a laureate of the Fonderie Darling’s 2023-2026 Montreal Studio Program, where her studio is sponsored by the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal.