Using the visual vocabulary of housework and craft (especially craft involving yarn), Three Chores imagines three improbable or impractical work flows. Chantel Mierau turns naps into make-work projects, uses a crochet hook to create a plumbing problem, and lets other things that need doing go on way too long. Wool, silk, beeswax and hair are mishandled and over-handled in ways that magnify the failures of the artist’s body, and which rule out the possibility of any practical outcome.

This Gallery 2 exhibition will consist of three video works that each create tension and suspense within domestic actions. Every two weeks a new video will be shown – please see below for more details. The artist wishes to acknowledge the financial support of the Manitoba Arts Council.

CHORE 1 | 12 April – 25 April

CHORE 2 | 26 April – 9 May

CHORE 3 | 10 May – 24 May

BIOGRAPHY

Chantel Mierau is a Winnipeg-based artist originally from a farm near Saskatoon, SK/Treaty 6 Territory. She works in textiles, video, printmaking and performance which interrogate the Protestant work ethic of her Mennonite upbringing. She won’t invite you over because her house is messy. She holds a BFA from the University of Manitoba and is also the Finance & Administration Manager at aceartinc.