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kupferschmidt / kupferschmid / kupferschmidte
Jill Smith
Exhibition: August 3rd - 30th, 2024
Opening Reception: August 9th 2024
Image Credit: Jill Smith – kupferschmidt / kupferschmid / kupferschmidte
About the Exhibition
kupferschmidt / kupferschmid / kupferschmidte is a sculpture and installation-based exhibition which uses materiality and autobiography to question the role and success of self-preservation amid a disruption to identity. The works in this exhibition use materials including those associated with Jewish culture to demonstrate the paradoxical nature of preservation. Notions of time and authenticity are disrupted by the tension between desire for preservation and inevitable failure. The works, surreal and absurd, aim to answer the question: is true preservation even possible?
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jill Smith is a queer, Jewish multi-disciplinary artist born and based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Working primarily in sculpture, her practice explores archival properties of materials, objects, and rituals. Often working with the intersections of Judaism, feminism, and materiality, she brings together found materials and cultural signifiers to consider how we may or may not access memory.
Smith holds an MFA from University of Waterloo and a BFA from Western University. Among others, she has exhibited at Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON; the plumb, Toronto, ON; Ed Video Media Art Centre, Guelph, ON; Forest City Gallery, London, ON; Friends and Neighbours Gallery, Montreal, QB; and has been artist-in-residence at Gibraltar Point, Toronto, ON; AGA LAB, Amsterdam, NL.
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