Maia Stark: Strange Dark Memory
📅 Fri, Mar 27, 10 AM – Sun, Aug 9, 9 PM
3475 Albert Street, Regina, SK, Canada, Saskatchewan S4S 6X6
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Experience Exhibitions Maia Stark: Strange Dark Memory Maia Stark, Narcissus had a sister, oil on canvas , 2025, SK Arts Permanent Collection. Photo: Kevin Hogarth Saskatoon-based artist Maia Stark explores the figure of the double—such as twins, doppelgangers, and mirrored selves—as mythological symbols, in her first major institutional solo exhibition, Strange Dark Memory . Drawing on her Icelandic, Irish, and Scottish heritage, the artist references European folktales and fairytales to explore her personal experience as a twin, where doubling offers companionship and threatens individuality—a conceptual tension that informs all her work. Traditional fairytales use magical realism to explore dark or difficult subject matter, such as disease and death. Stark’s ceramic sculptures draw on these thematics, engaging symbolism such as shapeshifting animals and doubles to examine different representations of the Self. In many folktales, twins can be both harbingers of death and stand-ins for the immortality of the soul