6282, St-Hubert Street, Montreal (QC) H2S 2M2
Rosemont/Villeray Route
Landbeing
Exhibited artists: Leeay Aikawa, Kristi Chen and Akash Inbakumar
Landbeing brings together the works of Toronto-based artists Leeay Aikawa, Kristi Chen and Akash Inbakumar as they explore their relationship to land and to the basic elements that make the particular geological conditions of the land. They let their bodies (re)belong with their kin and places where they’ve left bits of themselves behind.
Inspired by season-based expressions of the land, Aikawa animates cooling sounds by combining summer wind and the heat of a glass studio, which resembles the humidity of summer in Japan. Her blown glass kinetic piece was made in her hometown, Toyama, Japan. She adds her own playful touch to a common, traditional Japanese object through her way of hanging it, utilizing one of her recurring mediums: sculpting with steel wire.
From the gardens of Toronto Islands to the rainforest of Rimbun Dahan, the maturity of plants, vegetables, flowers and fruits has influenced the color palette of Chen’s woven sculptures. Chen explores synthetic materials with rattan, using basketry techniques to mimic forms of invasive and local plants. She uses vegetation and flora from tropical to temperate climates to narrate the stories of hardship and resilience within the diaspora.
Inbakumar reflects on their travels across Asia, where for six months they explored many weaving and dyeing techniques, engaging with a deeper understanding of their own practice, reflecting on their personal growths and failings.
This show marks a landing point for their returns from traveling, making it both a retrospective and a prospective. Landbeing reflects on how living means being in relationship with space, whether as traveler or as resident, and various ways to collaborate, to adapt and commune.
Duration: 1 h
Bilingual
Exploring Landbeing is a 3-day series of improvisations in conversation with Leeay Aikawa, Kristi Chen, and Akash Inbakumar’s collective exhibition Landbeing. Each day will feature a different trio of improvisers, brought together exceptionally for these performances, responding to the sculptural work and weaving their creative practices together. Landbeing seeks to explore how living means being in relationship with space, whether as traveler or as resident, and various ways to collaborate, to adapt and commune. This series allows for a unique opportunity to commune and find grounding in the work through sound and spontaneous composition.
Duration: 1 h
Bilingual
Exploring Landbeing is a 3-day series of improvisations in conversation with Leeay Aikawa, Kristi Chen, and Akash Inbakumar’s collective exhibition Landbeing. Each day will feature a different trio of improvisers, brought together exceptionally for these performances, responding to the sculptural work and weaving their creative practices together. Landbeing seeks to explore how living means being in relationship with space, whether as traveler or as resident, and various ways to collaborate, to adapt and commune. This series allows for a unique opportunity to commune and find grounding in the work through sound and spontaneous composition.
Duration: 1 h
Bilingual
Exploring Landbeing is a 3-day series of improvisations in conversation with Leeay Aikawa, Kristi Chen, and Akash Inbakumar’s collective exhibition Landbeing. Each day will feature a different trio of improvisers, brought together exceptionally for these performances, responding to the sculptural work and weaving their creative practices together. Landbeing seeks to explore how living means being in relationship with space, whether as traveler or as resident, and various ways to collaborate, to adapt and commune. This series allows for a unique opportunity to commune and find grounding in the work through sound and spontaneous composition.
