Betonwaves Opening Reception and Summer Institute 2025: Magic Creek Open Studios
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art 460 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 0E8
BetonWaves (after Egon Wrobel), 2022 (image courtesy of the artists)
Plug In ICA is happy to announce our upcoming exhibition, Betonwaves, with artist duo Louise Witthöft and Rodney LaTourelle, opening September 5, 2025.
Please join us on September 5 at 7PM to celebrate the opening of this exhibition.
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.