Ingrid Koenig: Navigating the Uncertainty Principle
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Contemporary Art Gallery 555 Nelson Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 6R5
Ingrid Koenig, "Pressure," 2007
conte and graphite on Stonehenge paper
Dear friends of CAG,
In light of the increasing concerns regarding COVID-19, and in order to protect the health and wellbeing of our community, the Contemporary Art Gallery will be temporarily closed as of today, Tuesday, March 17, until further notice.
Please note that all upcoming events through March and April are postponed or cancelled. The CAG Team will continue to work remotely during this time, aiming to develop our work via our digital channels wherever possible.
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The CAG Team
'Navigating the Uncertainty Principle' is a major solo exhibition by Vancouver-based artist and educator Ingrid Koenig, presenting large scale drawings across the gallery façade and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse station.
Koenig’s artistic practice traverses the fields of theoretical physics, social history and narratives of scientific thought through visual art and participatory projects involving collaborations between artists and physicists. Currently Artist in Residence at TRIUMF, Canada’s particle accelerator centre at the University of British Columbia, Koenig is inspired by the possibilities of considering disparate ways of knowing in relationship to one another.
For Koenig, drawing is one such powerful way of knowing. 'Navigating the Uncertainty Principle' developed out of these research concerns, and from the artist’s ongoing interest in the diagrams scientists use to describe the complex phenomena of physics, such as thermal movement, black holes, electromagnetism and chain reactions. In her graphite drawings, Koenig entangles this mode of visual communication with an iconography of domestic life—cooking, refrigerating, washing up. In this way, she charts the interconnected currents and inescapable chaos of everyday existence, and proposes a means of visualizing those abstract laws that, while imperceptible on the scale of human action, bind us both materially and poetically to the rest of the universe.