Maisie Cu

The Shadows is a personal investigation project with black and white images. Maisie adopts photography as a mode of adaptation and an instinct to look, as well as the effect of understanding the shadows of moods, affects, memories, and storylines in her life as she approaches her project of self-analysis. She maps out symbols, past-present-future, relationships, archetypes, and personas alongside places and subjects of her outer life to capture the images. Through fast movement and unrefined captures as a reaction of a reflex of a generative instinct, her photographs in this series resemble moving pictures and should be read as such. This series is Maisie’s investigation of The Shadows in the Jungian psychoanalysis tradition. 

Maisie Cu is a documentary photographer based in Toronto, Canada. Her subject matter deals with the human conditions, her self-analysis, her love for Western Canada, a sense of oikophilia, and the need for home and dwelling alongside the symbolism of everyday walking life. As a keen observer, her pictures often carry a sense of being an outsider, somewhat detached from the images, yet profoundly involved and experimental with a personally intensified mood. Her sense of being and narrative are often placed within a physical and metaphysical space as a fast, automatic reflex to guide her storyline. She cites her influence as Sir Roger Scruton, Alfred Hitchcock, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Her works were previously published and exhibited in both Canada and internationally in the Ada Slaight Gallery and 86 Logic.

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Contact: maisiecu@gmail.com
Website: maisiecu.com
IG: @orange_cathedral

May 15 to May 26th, 2024
918 Bathurst Street, Toronto
Sun and Star Rooms

Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 12pm to 5pm
Opening reception: Thursday, May 16th from 6-9pm
Artist talk: Saturday, May 18th from 1-3pm