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Donna Kukama, still of Chapter Q: Dem Short-Short-Falls, 2017/2018. Courtesy the artist & blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa.
Exhibition
BREATHLESS at The Power Plant
20 May 2022 – 30 Oct 2022
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- Closed
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- 231 Queens Quay W
- Toronto
Ontario - M5J 2G8
- Canada
BREATHLESS arises from today’s urgent air crises and concerns for our shared atmospheres—including the current global pandemic, racial injustice (“I can’t breathe”), forest fires, and carbon emissions—all of which create a sense of uncertainty about our futures.
About
A conceptual ecosystem, BREATHLESS manifests as a specially designed public pavilion with integrated artworks that address the vulnerabilities of the breath. Animated by a circadian rhythm, the pavilion exhibits itself as an interior experience during the daytime and transforms by nightfall into a public projection. In 2021, The Power Plant published an accompanying book, BREATHLESS, which is available from the gallery shop.
Flaka Haliti (born in Pristina, Kosovo, 1982) lives in Munich and represented her home country Kosovo at the Venice Biennale in 2015. She has exhibited internationally, was a scholarship holder of the Villa Romana in Florence in 2017, and is a recipient of the Ars Viva Prize and the Henkel Award.
Marguerite Humeau (born in France, 1986) lives and works in London, UK. Humeau’s work stages the crossing of great distances in time and space, transitions between animal and mineral, and encounters between personal desires and natural forces. Among many exhibitions and public collections, Humeau is a participating artist in the 2022 Venice Biennale.
Donna Kukama (born in South Africa, 1981) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is informed by performance-based research processes. Kukama has exhibited and presented performances at several notable institutions and museums, including Tate Modern, London, and the South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
Julius von Bismarck (born in Breisach am Rhein, Germany, 1983) grew up in Riad, Saudi Arabia, and currently lives in Berlin. Associating visual arts with other fields of research and experimentation, von Bismarck’s artistic practice is defined by an in-depth and complex exploration of the phenomena of perception, or the representation and reconstruction of reality.
