under the theme ASSEMBLY, curated by Katie A. Pfohl.
This online exhibition features 25 artists who explore assembly’s deep roots in art history
and its connection to progressive political thought.
At a time when global circumstances challenge our ability to gather,
these artists help us envision new ways of coming together,
holding multiple truths, and forging unexpected connections.
The exhibition emphasizes that assembly often necessitates disassembly
— where old ideas, materials, and concepts are reimagined and reassembled into something new.
Through their work, the artists rethink industry and capitalism, renew relationships with community and ancestry,
and reconsider our connection to land and the environment.
FAITH XLVII’s Chaos Theory series involves the labour intensive process
of piecing apart, and reassembling world maps and atlases.
The intricately handcrafted tapestries call attention
to the forms of borders and geographical boundaries, of our planet.
Looking at land and sea, merging natural landscapes and juxtaposing place.
In their aesthetic beauty they elude to questions of distance, migration, land ownership, and borders.
