“We don’t know what we’re making until we make it. When I shared my poem with Christine Fellows and Chantel Mierau, two brilliant artists I was over the moon to collaborate with, the page dissolved and burst open all at once.”
Chantel Mierau
Chantel Mierau is an artist working in video and performance. Her work examines the everyday, frequently focusing on the body and clothing. By strategically using repetition to either lull and comfort, or to build tension and suspense, Mierau reckons with the comfort and discomfort of living in a body. Since graduating from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2011, she has exhibited locally and nationally. Her recent work 3 Chores was exhibited in Winnipeg at Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Art in 2019 and was featured in BlackFlash Magazine in 2020.
In “Three Chores,” Mierau turns the prolific messes of the human body into “fanciful concentrations.” These are not the usual taking-out-the-garbage messes but, rather, the accumulations of the dreaming eye and the overactive follicle—organic messes that gather and persist despite us.
