The Curse of Geography

Challenging colonial conceptions of how Land and Water are used, valued, and protected, Reworldings speaks to living relationships with place and peoples, to the interdependence of species and systems, and to the urgent need to restore not only ecosystems, but justice.

Through practices that span net art, interactive sculpture, installation, video, and textile, Soft Internet Theory invites audiences to consider a gentler, more human digital future.

Fuzzy Thinking explores how textiles’ softness and tactility challenge boundaries between art and craft, weaving together historical and contemporary works rooted in material and cultural complexity.

Curated through an open call, artists from across Guelph were invited to share their work in a collective reflection of the city’s creative landscape.

Through photography, Bahar Enshaeian unravels the intricate layers of memory, identity, and belonging. Rooted in personal experience, her work speaks to the complexities of migration, displacement, and the search for home.

What utility can we find in vestiges of the past? This question shapes Hal Fortin’s interdisciplinary practice and its distinct sculptural language, punctuated by humour, dream logic, and the rhythms of domestic labour.

At the heart of Stephanie Fortin’s practice is an ethical inquiry: is it necessary—or responsible—to aestheticize waste in the context of global exploitation and climate change?