Tidelines brings together the work of Kuh Del Rosario, Maria Chekhanovich, and Cecilia McKinnon, in a collaborative sculptural installation. This project is born from a desire to convene the three artists’ overlapping material vocabularies, to form a new language together in a shared space, and to initiate material processes which leak into one another in the time and space of the exhibition. All three artists enact gestures of repetition in processing their materials: gathering, dehydrating, grinding, cooking, casting, and flocking. They perform the generative ‘natural’ processes of erosion and reconstitution in the compressed timescale of the studio. Kitchen compost, mineral remnants, household and studio waste, and ubiquitous ingredients cohere into durational sculptures which desiccate, crystallize, melt, or host new life.

Materials are encountered as half-digested by entropy and circulation through the currents of everyday life and global economies.

There is an element of indeterminacy to each artist’s practice, an openness to emergent forms and textures, and an opportunity to reflect on the poetics of materials. Working from discards, leftovers, and unpredictable elements, these works invite slow contemplation and close attention. What can be learned by simply witnessing the way things trans-form over time? The evident lifespans of the works invoke cycles of growth and decay in both form and process and speculate into the future lives of materials in the human waste stream, where things break down but never go away.

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Materials present:

Agar agar, alum, brass rods, ceramic sherds, chicle, cinnamon, clam shells, coffee, computer toner black, concrete, cutch dye, eggshell, gelatine, glass, glycerine, hemp twine, ibuprofen, indigo, iron oxide, mdf, metal shavings, mica powdered, milkweed fluff, mussel shells, olive pits, orange peels, paper pulp, pine bark, plaster, plastics recycled and twined, pomegranate peels, polyester, potassium sorbate, raspberry puree, rat poison, roses dried, rebar, river glass, safety glass, salt, sand, seaglass, silk, silverware, soda cans flattened, sodium alginate, sunflower stalks dried, sawdust, turmeric, ube powder, vegetable cuttings dried, vitamin C, wax, weld dye, wood, Wissahickon schist

Images by Guy L’Heureux, 2024

Presented at FoFA Gallery, June 2024, in Tio’tia:ke/Montreal.