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James Harris Gallery is pleased to present its first solo exhibition
by Toronto artist Tania Kitchell. Her work is informed by environment
and climate, specifically the harshness of the winter and her perception
and relationship with it. She explores these ideas through photographs
and rigorously kept weather entries, which fuel her work.
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her photographs, Kitchell presents us with the artist's environment
as the subject; one in which she reacts to and interacts with. Kitchell
reveals how her body and the environment impact each other simultaneously
by showing remnants of these interactions; the artist's breath made
visible by the cold, the snow formed by her hand, the traces of
her footsteps. The resulting photographs are at once documentary
and performance based. Though the acts within the photographs are
staged, the weather cannot be controlled. Recording the weather
is one way in which the artist attempts to regain this control.
As a way of documenting the passing of time as well as an affirmation
to consider each day, Kitchell creates a sense that nothing is constant
and that change is inevitable.
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