New Photography Exhibit Opens at Shenkman Arts Centre in Ottawa

New Photography Exhibit Opens at Shenkman Arts Centre in Ottawa

Opening reception: March 5th, from 6 to 8 p.m.

CORRESPONDENCES, a collaborative exhibition by 10 Canadian photographers, invites us to reconsider our relationship with the world around us.

CORRESPONDENCES, a collaborative exhibition by 10 Canadian photographers, is tender, personal, and vulnerable. It is a love letter to the world around us in all its beauty and brokenness and an invitation to cultivate greater intimacy with our correspondents in the more-than-human world.

The exhibit will be housed in the Lalonde+Doyle exhibition space at the Shenkman Arts Centre from February 22, 2025 until April 18, 2025. Admission is free. Everyone is invited to a reception to meet the artists on Wednesday, March 5th, from 6 to 8 p.m.

CORRESPONDENCES takes viewers on a journey from the expansive landscape of Alaska’s pipelines to the overlooked insects that thrive in the shadow of Ottawa’s tallest building and to the collateral damage of roadkill. Get up close and personal with Sadie, a lovable dog who teaches her owner how to see. Explore the commons within a Hydro corridor and the surprising ways its neighbours use it. Imagine a world of wonder seen through a child’s eyes in Saskatchewan and delight in the way a woman moulds her body into the landscape of trees and rocks in rural Quebec. Contemplate the way water marks a city landscape after a flood and the pure beauty of light as it falls along a forest path. Reflect on the way trees and rocks wrap around each other along the Niagara River.

The artists are members of the Kinship Photography Collective, a global community of practice that invites photographers to deepen their empathy and connection with the natural world. With this spirit of collaboration in mind, the 10 Canadians began meeting in 2024 to explore the correspondences between their work and the world that inspires them. They rejected the primacy of the individual in art production in favour of a more collaborative approach and recognized our world as a community in which all life forms have presence and agency. The resulting curated exhibition reflects the dynamic relationships that exist between us and the more-than-human world.

Participating artists: Sasha Chapman Valerie Chartrand, J.A. Lamont, Victoria Laube, Leah Mowers, Kim Manley Ort, Richard Robesco, Vera Saltzman, Ruth Steinberg and Jon Stuart.

LaLande + Doyle exhibition space
Shenkman Arts Centre
245 Centrum Boulevard, Ottawa

Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30 to 10:00 pm, Saturday & Sunday 8:30 am to 8 pm


Website: jonstuartprints.com/correspondences