Post Post
Sculptural installation
magazines, mixed media, 2017 to 2026
A series of paper constructions repurposed magazines that were received through the post. Artforum, Canadian Art and other publications have been taken apart, glued back together and taken apart again. Making through unmaking and undoing and redoing the done.
First shown in 2017 as a series on a shelf, the series was reconsidered and presented in plexi boxes on a charcoal wall in 2026.
This version was shown at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon as part of Material.After.Life curated my Michelle Jacques.
Material.After.Life. examines the many ways artists animate found materials, revealing how the discarded can take on new lives, meanings, and forms. The exhibition brings together works that transform remnants of the everyday into objects that speak to memory, imagination, and renewal, alongside pieces that playfully reconfigure cast-off elements into lively, unexpected, or anthropomorphic creations. Through gestures that range from the poetic to the humorous and from the conceptual to the contemplative, the artists highlight the potential for materials to carry histories, spark associations, and suggest states of becoming. Material. After. Life. invites viewers to consider how what we leave behind—whether objects, ideas, or traces—can be reassembled into something resonant, vital, and newly alive.
Participating artists are: Sonny Assu, Douglas Bentham, Wally Dion, John Latham, Joanne Lyons, Gwen MacGregor, Leanne Read, Kara Uzelman, Jan Wade.
https://remaimodern.org/events-gatherings/opening-celebration-material-after-life/
magazines, mixed media, 2017 to 2026
A series of paper constructions repurposed magazines that were received through the post. Artforum, Canadian Art and other publications have been taken apart, glued back together and taken apart again. Making through unmaking and undoing and redoing the done.
First shown in 2017 as a series on a shelf, the series was reconsidered and presented in plexi boxes on a charcoal wall in 2026.
This version was shown at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon as part of Material.After.Life curated my Michelle Jacques.
Material.After.Life. examines the many ways artists animate found materials, revealing how the discarded can take on new lives, meanings, and forms. The exhibition brings together works that transform remnants of the everyday into objects that speak to memory, imagination, and renewal, alongside pieces that playfully reconfigure cast-off elements into lively, unexpected, or anthropomorphic creations. Through gestures that range from the poetic to the humorous and from the conceptual to the contemplative, the artists highlight the potential for materials to carry histories, spark associations, and suggest states of becoming. Material. After. Life. invites viewers to consider how what we leave behind—whether objects, ideas, or traces—can be reassembled into something resonant, vital, and newly alive.
Participating artists are: Sonny Assu, Douglas Bentham, Wally Dion, John Latham, Joanne Lyons, Gwen MacGregor, Leanne Read, Kara Uzelman, Jan Wade.
https://remaimodern.org/events-gatherings/opening-celebration-material-after-life/
