Luminous Bodies closing exhibition, open studios and performances 2024

Chantal Fraizinger’s pocket size human organs were created through a meditative process that drew awareness and care for the whole and internal human body. The lovely organs were carried around in shoulder sack during the exhibition.

Jasper Berehulke created a new series of “brown on brown” collaged paintings that adorn the beauty and authenticity of transgender and non-binary bodies.

Amber Helene Müller St. Thomas created multitudes of delicate cyanotypes on cotton fabric – later to be made into stand-alone and worn banners that adorn the queer body.

Lauren (Elle) Morris embodied hopeful emotions into a participatory “feeling bodies” installation on Gibraltar Beach that expresses fluidity in queerness as a state of becoming. This work will later evolve into a digital work for exhibition at Inter-Access.

Maddie Alexander’s cyanotypes and video installation are rooted within his personal experiences accessing care as a trans person. The work draws attention to elements of time, chemistry and waiting in the process of transitioning.

Karole Marois engaged in plein air painting and drawing to explore connections of the human body to bodies of water. She experimented with various processes and concepts during her residency.

Hélène Lefebvre embodied sequential risings and settings of the sun through her performance art. Her 7am finale during a windy rise was breathtaking!

Christina Trutiak’s sense of wonder and resistance came to life as a pink creature who trudged along Lakeshore Avenue and into Centre Island Beach. The struggle was actualized by tying the creature to a rope that stop short of the shore.