Connie Chappel: Embodiment
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aceartinc. 206 Princess Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 1L4
Launch: Friday, April 26, 7pm
Artist talk: Saturday, May 4, 2pm
Connie Chappel has said that she has a particular passion for the symbiotic relationship human beings share with nature that considers past, current and future existence.
This multifaceted exhibition uses sculptural installation to combine curious material into experimental archaeological scenarios. Unusual juxtapositions of artificial and natural objects investigate idiosyncrasies of organic growth, decay and exhumation processes. Cryptic memorials merge kinetic twigs and branches with static rocks and body parts. Quivering air currents enliven suspended tree roots. An ambient glow beneath stain of sap drops on paper pays hommage to a meaningful birch wound. This living artifact display aims to conceive a highly delicate, eerie and fantastical forest that finds itself suspended in time.
The gallery space is a participant in this art historical allegory with works assembled in consideration of structure, corner, beam, space. Embodiment engages observations of adaptation, diversity, self-generation, and material evidence of history having passed. Redeemed natural salvage unearths human intervention in the otherwise inhabited world and embodies the inescapability of physical death.
Connie Chappel uses sculptural assemblage, installation and photography to explore correlations between the cycles of living entities, humans and inanimate objects. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, Mexico, and Europe. http://www.connie-chappel.com/