Megan Feniak

Butterfly Clock contemplates cycles of transformation, ritual and time as they unfurl across human and natural worlds. Borrowing from Ukrainian pysanky traditions—where decorated eggs encapsulate the sun, renewal and continuity—Megan Feniak weaves ancestral knowledge into a contemporary reflection on time and becoming. Her work considers how we might reconnect with the cosmic and cellular rhythms that have long governed existence on this planet.

The exhibition’s title reveals the ebb and flow of metamorphosis and duration: the butterfly’s innate timing, the sun’s orbit and the pulse of seasons that shape all life. In this fast-paced and data-saturated era, Feniak gestures toward an embodied, cyclical mode of being in the world. She reflects on how materials hold knowledge, gestures and ancient traditions.

In essence, Butterfly Clock asks how we might remember what we sometimes forget: the deep and ancient sense of time that connects us to the earth, to one another and to the sun itself. Feniak’s work asks for stillness and attention: transformation, like time, unfolds quietly, perpetually and in concert with all living things.

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About The Artist

Megan Feniak (b. 1990, Edmonton) is a multidisciplinary artist whose sculptures are rooted in traditional wood carving and folk art forms. Through intimate, tactile processes and accumulative mark-making, her works explore themes of desire, mortality, time, and primordial relationships. Feniak earned her BFA from the Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, and her MFA from the University of Guelph. Her work has been exhibited at Esker Foundation, Calgary; the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton; Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto; Hunt Gallery, Toronto; the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge; The Plumb, Toronto; Stride, Calgary; and The Bows, Calgary. She has participated in artist residencies at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and the Badlands Art Department in Drumheller. Feniak is currently based in Banff, Alberta, on Treaty 7 territory.

Photo by Cy Yang-Smith.

Artist website: https://www.meganfeniak.com/

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Province of Alberta through the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.