Apprentice, Art Apprenticeship Network 2024

Kira Meyer is an interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, BC on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations where they are completing their BFA in Sculpture and Expanded Practices at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Kira’s practice is concerned with the structure of self-identity as related to consumption and ritual. Through reconfiguring ephemeral materials such as cardboard, plastic, and tape, they have developed a material language that presents containers and packaging products as an invitation to consider self-organization as influenced by emotional and environmental circumstances. Their work resists the separation of the formal from the conceptual, asking the viewer for presence with that which does not resolve or explain itself.