Nicole Bauberger | Fish and Fire

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Nicole Bauberger, “Fish,” 2023

(courtesy of the artist)

Closing Reception: January 26th, 5-7 pm

Nicole Bauberger’s January installation is made almost entirely of excess plastic bike reflectors diverted from the waste stream.

The main piece in Fish and Fire evokes an abstracted forest fire using just white and orange reflectors.

Reflector-based fish will swim through the rest of the gallery space. Some of these fish were fabricated with help from Nakai Theatre summer students during the summer of 2022.

The fish have swum through the Dalton Trail Trail Gallery behind Hillcrest for a year before appearing at Theatre in the Bush this past September, along with the fire piece, which Bauberger brought into being especially for Theatre in the Bush. This will be their first gallery appearance.

If you didn't win the ticket lottery for Theatre in the Bush this is your chance to see at least part of that show. 

Bauberger is open to discussing making fish like this with you and your friends for installation at a space of your choosing, as a commission.

The reflectors were gathered for Bauberger at Cadence Cycle bike shop. This work is partly inspired by Bauberger’s residencies at Raven Recycling and the concepts she has engaged with there. Her lantern workshop for Raven ReCentre’s Solstice Parade also featured bike reflectors. Also, watch for bike reflectors on the 14-foot monsters her installation at the (s)hiver installation in Dawson City the first weekend of February.

Keep an eye out as well for Nicole’s activities with her curator hat on. With Janet Patterson, Bauberger co-curated Yukon Artists At Work’s 20^th anniversary exhibition at the Yukon Arts Centre, and the pair are offering an array of tours and events in January.