Maria Hupfield’s balancing act – The Coast

The One Who Keeps on Giving is a riveting collaboration between artist, gesture and object.

Dressed all in black, four artists slip into orange work vests in headlamps before their faces are painted with neon makeup: Lines of hot pink across foreheads, small purple triangles on cheeks and electric yellow painted on eyelashes. Nodding in soft agreement as each pigment is applied, the artists’ faces and reflective vests lit up by the small bulb of their headlamps.

So began a March 17 performance by New York-based Anishinaabe artist Maria Hupfield with local artists Raven Davis, Ursula Johnson and Amy Malbeuf at Mount Saint Vincent University’s gallery. Travelling to five cities in two years, Hupfield’s exhibition The One Who Keeps on Giving, on at MSVU until May 13, features a performance in each host city. “Working with a local artist is a way for me to connect with the place,” says Hupfield. “With Halifax it was especially unique because this was the first time [during this tour] I worked with all Indigenous artists.”

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