Momentarily Unstuck

Momentarily Unstuck
Tia Bates and Danielle Petti
March 13-23, 2024

Satellite Project Space
121 Dundas St, London, ON
Wednesday-Friday 2-7pm, Saturday 12-5pm

Closing Reception: March 22, 5-7pm

Tia and Danielle are unstuck in time. Entropically unstuck in the spaces of colour and light, letting the chronological mechanics of memory be experienced all at once. In this exhibition, matter is both momentary and everlasting; the fragments of cinema and the lithified entities in the found earth are storytellers. 

In this Western University first year MFA cohort exhibition, Momentarily Unstuck features new works and installations created from September 2023 to March 2024. All this happened, more or less.

Tia Bates sculpts with cinematic light to foster the intimate ‘touch’ of filmic image on the human body and the space inhabited in between. Both the porous human skin and malleable memory allow for a breach by the light of cinema. In the darkness of the cavernous movie house, the film’s aura grows and affects, drawing in, with the desire to capture and stick, to linger in the mind and stay in the head.

Danielle Petti uses handmade recycled paper pulp to expose the imbalanced value hierarchy of human and nonhuman mark making. She explores the agency and histories of her earthen and repurposed materials. Colours are found, averaged, and intertwined, resulting in a momentary medium. The factors of chance are immune to reproduction. ‘I am merely one expression of the universe’s sculptural tendencies.’

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