The Atmosphere is Always Still Being Made by Lisa Hirmer, curated by Elwood Jimmy

The Atmosphere is Always Still Being Made by Lisa Hirmer, curated by Elwood Jimmy

G101's final exhibition of 2025 is a solo show by Guelph-based artist Lisa Hirmer, curated by Elwood Jimmy in partnership with the Musagetes Foundation.

This exhibition explores the atmospheric quality of contemporary life: the atmosphere being both a material fact of life on this planet and a strange, new awareness ushered in by climate change. The atmosphere is at once the thick layer of gas that surrounds the planet and makes life possible, everything that is beyond and between us and all beings, and something entering and leaving our bodies with each breath. It is also a place so profoundly altered by our carbon-fuelled civilization that livability as we know it is at risk.

The photo-based and sculptural works in this exhibition explore the feeling of living inside this realm of unbounded exchange, where actions cannot be contained but are instead drifting and ever-accumulating, suggesting profound social and political implications for how we, climate-altering humans, live on this planet where the atmosphere puts us into relationship with all things. At the same time, the works in The Atmosphere is Always Still Being Made try to make sense of the embodied experiences of living within climate change, where a constant awareness of our rapidly changing planet colours our daily experiences of life, weather, and especially seasonal change.

Lisa acknowledges support from the Musagetes Foundation, rare Charitable Research Reserve, Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council – an agency of the Province of Ontario

Join us for the vernissage:
Gallery 101 (280 Catherine St)
Saturday, November 8
2:00 – 5:00 PM


The Atmosphere is Always Still Being Made
November 8 – December 6, 2025
Mask Days Saturdays November 15 & 29