September 13 – October 4, 2019
Supercrawl Weekend Hours:
Friday September 13: 12-10pm
Saturday September 14: 12-10pm
Sunday September 15: 12-5pm
Please join us at the Factory during Supercrawl Weekend for the opening of Sensations of breathing at the sound of light, solo exhibition by local artist: Natalie Hunter.
Sensations of breathing at the sound of light merges photography video projection and sculpture to address ideas of memory, home, time, light, and their relationships with consciousness, self awareness, and perception. Straddling the liminal space between sculpture and image, material and immaterial, presence and absence, Sensations of breathing at the sound of light investigates light and it’s material affects on the body, mind, and in the camera. Bringing together works made over the past four years, Natalie Hunter questions our physical, emotive, and psychological relationships to light, space, and air as they envelop us daily within the home, rest in memory, but often escape our notice. Light is used to make photographs, activate spaces, and considered a material in the production and presentation of each work. This extended study in the ephemeral qualities of light and the passage of time attempts to unravel our memories of the spaces we know intimately through time and lived experience. Natalie Hunter wishes to acknowledge the generous support of both the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.
Artist Statement:
Natalie Hunter uses transparent photographs, light, and other light activated materials to create installations and sculptures that challenge the boundaries between mental and physical spaces, time and memory, material and immaterial, light and motion, presence and absence. Her multidisciplinary practice is concerned with the transformation of materials, objects, and images in ways that evoke an emotive or psychological response in the viewer. Her work engages with the passage of time, the ephemeral qualities of light, how it affects familiar spaces, the body, our perception of time, and what this does to memory and immediate experience. She often produces experiential installations using photographs on transparent film, light, and other fragile materials that engage with the poetics of time, memory, perception, and the senses.
About the Artist:
Natalie Hunter is a Canadian Artist who grew up in Hamilton, Ontario. She holds an MFA from the University of Waterloo, and a Bachelor of Art in Visual Art from Brock University. She is the recipient of several awards including an Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists Creation Project Grant for Emerging Artists, and a Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant. She has shown her work in Canada and the United States in numerous exhibitions, including: the Hamilton Supercrawl (2014), the Art Gallery of Hamilton, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Thames Art Gallery, Rodman Hall Arts Centre, Mississauga Living Arts Centre, Hopkins Centre For the Arts at Dartmouth College, the Art Gallery of Windsor, Centre 3 for Print and Media Arts, Latcham Art Centre, and Museum London. More recently, she exhibited her work in a solo exhibition at Rodman Hall Arts Centre titled Staring into the sun. She is currently teaching sessionally at both Brock University and the University of Waterloo where she recently received an Excellence in Online Teaching Award.