Carmen Winther: Prototypes for No Place
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Caetani Centre 3401 Pleasant Valley Road, Vernon, British Columbia V1T 4L4
Come meet Carmen and experience her pop-up art exhibit at Vernon’s Caetani Centre Prototypes for No Place during the opening reception on Wednesday, August 28th, 7pm - 9pm, as well as during gallery hours on Thursday August 29th from 11am-4pm in the Caetani Cultural Centre Studio Gallery.
“My exhibit, Prototypes For No Place, is a collection of experiments featuring discarded materials I’ve gathered and manipulated into speculative objects,” describes Winther.
The materials are elegantly arranged, so precisely placed next to and on top of one another that it looks, at first, like I’ve stepped into an off-kilter interior design display. Lush and contemplative.Yet, on a closer approach, the materials reveal themselves as foam, folded and draped. Mattress. Pipe. String.
“I work with synthetic waste materials to reinstill value into objects that would otherwise contribute to pollution,” shares local artist Carmen Winther, the Caetani Centre’s second UBCO Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies (FCSS)/Caetani Artist-in-Residence.
Winther first studied industrial design at the Ontario College of Art and Design University before transferring to a BFA program with a focus in sculpture at UBC Okanagan. Industrial design instilled in her a desire to produce functional and usable objects, which has greatly influenced her sculptural production.