Caementarium
2023
Site-specific commission Nuit Blanche Etobicoke, in collaboration with Reza Nik, curated by Lillian O’Brien Davis
Between the Mimico and Etobicoke Creeks sits the Colonel Samuel Smith Park and the Humber College’s Lakeshore Campus, the prior site of the Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital (1890-1979). The work engages in a speculative conversation with the ways of living, sheltering, controlling, caring, and remediating that once constituted this place, and the ones that still run through the roots of their porous and eerie formations.
Footnotes for an Arsenal
2022
Site responsive work at Small Arms Inspection Building, Misssissauga. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art, curated by Candice Hopkins, Katie Lawson, and Tairon Bastiene
Footnotes for an Arsenal (2022) proposes an exercise of attunement toward ways of thinking with the ground we stand upon, an invitation to enact an unflinching, caring, and responsible attention to that ground, and to the profound social, historical, and chemical enmeshments that link us to it.
1:10000
2018-2023
This multidisciplinary project stems from ecological and geopolitical research on the patterns of land extraction and exploitation by Canadian mining in the Americas. The work circles around the creation of ceramic vessels that incorporate soil from territories affected by Bajo La Alumbrera mine, in Catamarca, Argentina. The vessels cast the shape of the mine’s open pit to a scale 1:10000, they were
conceived as gifts, and were sent to the CEO and CSR excecs of Yamana and Newmont-Goldcorp, the mining companies operating the site.
Patterns of Indulgence
2018-2021
Patterns of Indulgence is a wallpaper work composed of the logos of the twenty-five most powerful and contested Canadian Mining corporations operating in the Americas between 2018-2021.
Spoil
2020
This olfactory installation physically and poetically entangles us with the smell of soil near sites of gold extraction. Created in collaboration with Montreal-based perfumer and scent artist Dana El Masri, Spoil blends deep earth notes of terracotta, Puna herbs, gun powder, apricot pits and unripe peaches with the sharp smells of garlic blossoms and bitter almonds, resembling two of the most harmful by-products of gold mining operations: arsenic and cyanide.