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Nik Arthur, Eric Francisco, Elena Kirby & Masumi Rodriguez, Michelle Kuan, Hinako Omori, Rebecca Wilkinson
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Last Updated 26.03.05
Tunnel Mound Comeback
2025
- Art & Installation
- Papermaking
- Exhibition Design
- Booklet Design
- Poster Design
Tunnel Mound Comeback showcases work that stems from “invasive” plant species. Each artist addresses a form of relationship towards the plant material they work with. We place quotation marks on the word “invasive” as a way for us to leave room to think about how this word informs our relationship to these plants, and the ways we use this word outside of a plant context.
Elena Kirby, Masumi Rodriguez, and Emi Takahashi create work surrounding the plant known as dog-strangling vine (DSV). In conversation with the show, artist Bhavika Sharma takes on the plumb bar using a weedy/migrant plant known as phragmites.
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DSV’s rhizomatic growth allows it to spread and return each year, forming a dense underground network through a kind of cloning. This pattern of propagation felt like a recursive, nested language, the starting point for an imagined DSV plant script. This exploration resulted in two paper works (75x110 cm) made from DSV pulp and unblended fibers.
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Exhibited at the plumb gallery in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada, July 25 - August 17, 2025
Artists: Elena Kirby, Masumi Rodriguez, Emi Takahashi, Bhavika Sharma
Curated by: Emerald 邹佑
Text by: Chloe Gordon Chow
Documentation by: Em Moor, Elena Kirby, Masumi Rodriguez, Emi Takahashi