Maya Fuhr, Stella Star, 2025, pigment ink on archival cotton rag paper, 55.8 x 81.2 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Maya Fuhr, Sentient Meat, 2023, dye sublimation print on aluminum panel, 45.7 x 55.8 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Maya Fuhr: SOLE PARTS
Opening Reception
Thursday, April 16, 6 – 8 pm
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Sole Parts brings together Maya Fuhr’s manipulated images of altered shoes and figures in a world of preserved bodies and material transformation. Working with analogue photography, latex, aluminum, and tape, Fuhr treats the photograph as a shifting surface that creases, glistens, and folds under its own weight. Images once meant to seduce are consumed by their own materials, suspended between glamour and decay.
Shoes coated and sealed in latex slip outside their original identity, caught between object and relic. Their glossy skins mirror the cut-out silhouettes drawn from Fuhr’s own editorial archives, where bodies are outlined, emptied, and held in place by the same materials used to protect and perfect the soles of shoes on set. These figures carry the residue of past photoshoots, the self-expression of posing, taping, and preserving, now stripped and suspended in unfamiliar states.
Tape and latex become a gesture of care, containment, and a means to mask perfection. Through these transformed objects and outlined bodies, the work opens a view into the unseen labour that shapes allure – the surfaces that preserve, the hands that maintain the illusion, and the subtle systems that capture and direct how desire comes into being.
