Our big summer exhibition is here! Join us for the opening reception of ๐๐๐ค๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐, ๐ฆ๐๐ค๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ง๐๐๐, featuring new artworks by two Ottawa legends, ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐๐ข๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ซ๐ซ๐๐ณ and ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐จ ๐๐ซ๐๐ฃ๐จ.
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Take what you have, make what you need brings together Claudia Gutierrez and Guillermo Trejo in a shared exploration of material constraint, authorship, and cultural inheritance. Both artists embrace imperfect processes such as stitching, dyeing, cutting, and printing as a means of resisting systems rooted in standardization, industrial precision, and colonial modernism. Gutierrezโs stitched compositions reflect the domestic histories of textile, transformed by improvisation, repetition, and the embodied realities of caregiving. Trejo interrogates the failures of architectural modernism in Latin America, using serialized mark making and geometric distortion to expose the gap between imported ideals and lived experience. Across both practices, the hand disrupts the machine, and imperfection becomes an act of refusal. Whether in stretched threads or warped grids, the works trace a visual language of adaptation, where scarcity becomes generative and the act of making becomes a negotiation between memory, labour, and the structures we inherit or resist.
Exhibition runs from July 18 โ August 30, 2025
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