Building relationships
Track and Field
Heirloom fabric, acrylic gel medium, embroidery floss, photocopy of family photographs.
9”x12”
2025
Marian Lyndgaard expands the exhibition’s lens by connecting the world of athletics to the histories of land and power. Track and Field 1-6, embroidered assemblages, parallels the circular confinement of the racetrack with the rigid grids of industrial farming on the prairie, revealing how both mirror colonial systems of order, control, and erasure. Yet her work also gestures toward possibility: in reimagining competition along trails and back roads, Lyndgaard invites us to envision forms of movement unbound by imposed structures.