‘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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Mothering Fucker

Amy Wong

It is a relearning, to reset one’s compass and trust one’s instincts. To value one’s feelings as a source of knowledge. Personally, throughout my journey as a parent there have been immense challenges to my ability to care for myself and my child. Making this work was a process of reclaiming one’s strength and to resist what does not serve you. It’s about learning to take care and heal in order to give care. It’s about gratitude for all those who take care of me, who take care of communities, who take care of the world we live in.

This is a working through of my personal experience of motherhood. I was reflecting upon mothering as care, as cultural transmission and protection. I was reminding myself that knowledge through care can create meaningful change.

This work is inspired by a quotation by Grace Lee Boggs: "The only way to survive is by taking care of one another."

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'.

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