‘Betonwaves’ Opening Reception featuring Louise Witthöft and Rodney LaTourelle

Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is delighted to announce Betonwaves, an upcoming exhibition featuring Louise Witthöft and Rodney LaTourelle.

Betonwaves is a site-specific installation created with recycled concrete and low-carbon cement that is simultaneously sculpture, space and furnishing. The project presents an earth friendly and socially engaged critique of unecological construction systems by presenting ‘material’ itself as a narrative. Formed with locally salvaged concrete aggregate from the ongoing renovations of the Hudson’s Bay Company building nearby, which is now owned by the Southern Chiefs’ Organization, the installation likewise re-interprets this material in a sustainable context as a site for reflection and for talks and discussion about ecologically minded and post-colonial approaches to art production that address both circular, aesthetic and socio-political dimensions.

Louise Witthöft and Rodney LaTourelle are a project-based artist duo known for their large-scale immersive installations that explore the spatial poetics of communal experience. Exhibiting internationally for over twenty years, their interdisciplinary work often engages infrastructure as an expressive tool and is in the collections of The National Gallery of Canada, Remai Modern, and the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Acknowledgments

We are on Treaty 1 Territory. Plug In ICA is located on the territories of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and the National homeland of the Red River Métis. Our water is sourced from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation.

Plug In ICA extends our heartfelt gratitude to our generous donors, valued members, and dedicated volunteers. We acknowledge the sustaining support of our Director’s Circle. You all make a difference.

Plug In ICA would like to thank the Southern Chiefs’ Organization for their support on this project.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We could not operate without their continued financial investment and lobbying efforts.

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