Art Gallery of Guelph, April 2 - 6, 2025

https://artgalleryofguelph.ca/exhibition/the-weight-of-stains-the-wait-of-time-stephanie-fortin/

Photo documentation by Catherine Chan

“Rooted in the belief that contemporary art reflects and refracts the lived experiences of its makers, 155,578 champions a vibrant cross-section of practices that range in medium, subject, and sensibility. As a first curatorial initiative by Erin Szikora in her role as Curator of Contemporary Art, the exhibition seeks to listen to the city—to the stories, questions, and creative gestures that define its present, while looking ahead at possibilities for its future.” More info here.

Included in the exhibition is the work Home.

Home, reclaimed bed sheets, organic cotton thread, foraged sumac, citric acid, rust-derived iron, dye-removal print using four woodpecker feeding cavities in an eastern hemlock tree. Each cavity print is taken directly off the surface of the tree, from the old-growth forest in The Arboretum at the University of Guelph, 123 x 168 in., 2024

Images 1 and 2 by Toni Hafkenscheid