HUMAN / NATURE

Assistant curator Inès Mastellotto-Lesny

Opening Party Saturday March 25, 6PM - 9PM

Music by DJs MusicbyJayel (Ottawa) and Uyarakq (Nuuk, Greenland)

Special project by Stefana Fratila (Toronto) and Diana Lynn VanderMeulen (Toronto)

Food prepared by Chef Harriet Clunie (Wandering Chef 613)

The exhibition HUMAN / NATURE navigates the confluence of art, science, technology and the natural world. Bringing together research-based practices that transform our understanding of the visible and invisible worlds around us, the exhibition features innovative experiments between humans and living organisms. Plant and insect life are featured predominantly in the exhibition, including 200,000 mealworms eating away at Styrofoam sculptures in an installation by Copenhagen-based Recoil Performance Group. Over the course of the exhibition, multidisciplinary artist Annie Thibault will tend to a fungi laboratory in the gallery, creating a captivating universe of growing living matter. Marie-Jeanne Musiol presents the video installation Mirrors of the Cosmos, synthetizing her many decades of research into the phenomena of energetic nature, recording the luminous imprints of plants in an electromagnetic field.

Presented in partnership with the Danish Arts Foundation, the Embassy of Denmark, the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Debaser and ODD

This exhibition is part of SCI_ART Art, Science and Technology Symposium. For more information, please visit www.sci-art.ca