‘Exchange Piece’ explores collaboration as an act of care through an exchange between 10 early career and senior artists and designers working in pairs to explore how care in the creative process affects the way we relate and position ourselves to what we create. 

The exhibition features the work of Khadija Aziz, Jennifer Chan, Leigh Dotey, Laura Kay Keeling, Kristine Mifsud, Moira Ness, Tiffany Shaw-Collinge, Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky, Amy Wong, and Florence Yee and Arezu Salamzadeh as the Rice Water collective, who explore concepts of care and come together in pairs to collaborate on an exchange piece.

This exhibition is curated by DesignTO, co-presented with Harbourfront Centre, and supported by Lemay.

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Layers of Labour of Love

Khadija Aziz and Laura Kay Keeling

‘Layers of Labour of Love’ is a diptych of digital collages exchanged between the artists reflecting on labour, love, and acts of care that have become especially prominent in our communities over the last year. The artists participated in an exchange of conversations, readings, and their own artworks, to learn about each other’s personal narratives that inspire them to make the art that they do. Twice a week for four weeks, Khadija and Laura exchanged two digital collages and each added new scanned images of plants, textiles, and other everyday objects to develop this diptych. These reciprocating acts of care – through the labour of consciously contributing to each other’s work – has culminated in a visual representation of what could only be the result of a truly collaborative effort.

Khadija and Laura invite you to experience the benefits of such artistic collaboration through an extension of this project, ‘Layers of Love’. Experienced online at layersoflove.ca, guests are encouraged to create their own digital collage using the same layers the artists used in ‘Layers of Labour of Love’.

The making of a pendant

Monday, January 25, 8-9pm EST on Twitch

https://www.twitch.tv/craftsabyss

Join 'Exchange Piece' artists Kristine Mifsud, Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky for a live, surreal DIY/ASMR hybrid copper crafting performance, connected to their collaborative video project 'The Element'.

The making of a box

Monday, February 1, 8-9pm EST on Twitch

https://www.twitch.tv/craftsabyss

Join 'Exchange Piece' artists Kristine Mifsud, Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky for a live, surreal DIY/ASMR hybrid copper crafting performance, connected to their collaborative video project 'The Element'.

https://layersoflove.ca/

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