Zainab Hussain All images are of Area Rug, 2019-20, Site-specific, garden installation, mixed media. All images by and courtesy of the artist. Plants sit somewhere between animate and inanimate. They interact with and have an effect on their environment, they…
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The Garden as both Site-Specific and Transcending Place: Interview with Zainab Hussain
Anna Paluch Though gallery spaces have been host to many a unique installation, the inclusion of plant life or other biological materials within such curated spaces often warrants a double-take or posed selfie – a side effect of contemporary houseplant…
Indelible
Sandra Gregson All images copyright by Sandra Gregson (photo credit: Jessica Thalmann) (Left) Stain, 2020, Ink made from maple leaves, red oxide on mylar. (Centre) Reside, 2020. Inks made from buckthorn berries, oak and maple leaves on mylar. (Right) Breach,…
The Coves Collective
Michelle Wilson On this map, we, The Coves Collective, illustrate the land we traced with our bodies during walks and workshops and recorded with GPS apps (see the white-on-white stitches). We create images with threads stained and dyed with plants…
The Garden
The Garden asks how expanded forms of gardening, whether that be gardening as research-creation, ‘feral’ art practice, fostering new communities, addressing mental health, and, or resistance to capital all interact with the ever-challenging effects of climate change. Here the ‘garden’…
S’Y RETROUVER, 2023
Jinny Yu, Ki Jun Kim, and Frédéric Pitre All images by and courtesy of the artists. Visitors are invited to enter a submerged maze: a puzzle with various possible routes and dead ends meant to confuse and challenge those who…
Aerosol Parasol Jump
Carolyn Lambert Aerosol Parasol Jump, 2021, HD video Aerosol Parasol Jump is a video in which thumbs, fore-fingers, and Q-tips approach the vacancy left by the decline of reliable agents of propagation. Human pollinators reach into the screen, caress, poke…
Pieces of Eden: Making Gardens – Where Gardening and Installation Practices Meet
Deborah Margo My practice is anchored in issues of identity across multiple geographies. I am an Ashkenazi Jew and first-generation Canadian, born in Montreal, living in Ottawa. My family comes from Russia, Poland, Germany, the UK, and now Canada. Today we…
The Head
The head has been a source of representation and intellectual curiosity throughout history and across cultures. How do humans understand, picture, and study the many facets that make up the head? Be it the mind, the physical head itself, or…
Love Dies in the Head
Brent Kollock All images by and courtesy of the artist. What if reason was the only tool at our disposal to fall in love? What if logic was the dominant force in matters of longing and desire? The fatal flaws…