Betonwaves
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art 460 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 0E8
BetonWaves (after Egon Wrobel), 2022 (photo courtesy of the artists)
Plug In ICA is elated to announce our upcoming exhibition, Betonwaves, with artist duo 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.