Lucas Glenn and Mat Glenn: Creative Growth Centre for Spiritual Nourishment
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Kelowna Art Gallery 1315 Water St, Kelowna, British Columbia V1Y 9R3
Lucas Glenn and Mat Glenn, "Creative Growth Centre for Spiritual Nourishment," 2019
A reception to celebrate the exhibition will be held on Friday, November 29, 2019, from 6 to 8 pm. This is a free event, open to Gallery members and guests, by invitation.
Local artists Lucas Glenn and Mat Glenn have created a site-specific installation titled Creative Growth Centre for Spiritual Nourishment. It invites visitors to enter a living/ working space that is self-contained and aims to sustain human life as an ‘eco-utopian’ space.
Visitors are welcome to enter the room, sit, work and play—using the space as they would a scaled-down, shared co-operative workspace. The “centre” comes equipped with heat, power outlets, a charging station, and a working area that features variable lighting. Also sharing the space are peace lilies, which are self-watering and controlled through a coded device.
The centre is first-come, first-serve and the public are invited to come and work in the space.
The installation references the dreams of startup and DIY (do it yourself) culture and raises questions about the actual sustainability of such ideas.
Lucas and Mat Glenn are BFA graduates from UBC Okanagan and Kelowna-based interdisciplinary artists. Their sculptural, digital, and site-specific works use regional identity, science-fiction, and fantasy to address global crises.