Once Upon Water’s closing exhibition and open studios took place on September 29 at Artscape Gibraltar Point, the day of Nuit Blanche.
Bernhard Cociancig allows rain and waves to alter dry pigment paintings
Seana Kozar shares an original story of fantastical, ancient beings and the sea-change
Ali Deane creates a multi-media installation preserving and transforming the oceanic debris of Toronto Island
Stéphanie Cloutier explores absurd gestures and futile acts through performance, video and object-making
Jasmine Gui and Abby Ho explore water as historical archive and anti-archive through papermaking
Lisa Hemeon paints the ebb & flow of internal connections and energies
Rihab Essayh creates a video installation about water becoming an escape or a deathbed of a woman
Natalie Deryn Johnson explores the body of water within to unveil narratives of consciousness, inheritance and femininity
Chantal Khoury produces liquid paintings of internal waterscapes
Kelly O’Neill explores relationships between the human body and water
Roosje Verschoor researches how water reconfigures people and landscapes
Sandra Vida develops a performance reflecting water’s implications of cleansing and renewal
