Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky | Edelweiss

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RhRhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky, “Edelweiss,” 2023

(courtesy of the gallery)

An empty, impossibly black shed is gradually filled with lanterns made by the artists over the course of the exhibition. Appearing as luminous versions of everyday objects, these lanterns represent belongings found in one of the artists’ childhood home on Calgary’s Edelweiss Road, in which their parents still reside. Inspired by a high school friend’s brief attempt to move from his parents’ house into their garage, the black shed represents both an inherited home as well as a site for sifting and sorting through things that have been put into cold storage. At the end of the exhibition the shed will be cleared out during a small lantern festival-style event, in which the lanterns will be given away to gallery visitors.