Contemplating Glaciers - A Dialogue: A solo art exhibition by Jan Kabatoff, curated by Jessica Turner

A Solo Exhibition by Jan Kabatoff, Curated by Jessica Turner

Contemplating Glaciers - A Dialogue is a solo art exhibition by BC artist Jan Kabatoff, curated by Jessica Turner.

This exhibition marks the culmination of Ms. Turner's master's thesis, which explores the many ways in which art and participatory exhibition design can be a useful tool for climate change awareness.

Jan Kabatoff began her research into melting glaciers over two decades ago and has trekked across glaciers in North America, South America, and Asia, collecting data to inform her artistic practice. Inspired by glacier degradation symptoms such as cryocnites and boreholes, her artwork is the result of in-depth studies and up-close interactions with glaciers including Athabasca Glacier - the most visited glacier in North America - which is expected to disappear entirely between 2040 and 2100. Kabatoff captures the ever-changing glacier state through thoughtful mediums, allowing others to experience these massive ice formations up close through sculptures, paintings, textiles, video, and audio.

All ages welcome | Free admission

About the Artist

Growing up in a rural environment has instilled in me a deep passion for the natural world and a growing concern for the effects of climate change. As an interdisciplinary artist, I tend to respond to the issues at hand, whether they be loss of cultural identity and marginalization, climate change and its effect on glaciers and wildfires, or the transience of life during a pandemic. As one of the first Canadian artists to address the issue of global warming and its effect on glaciers in 2005, I received financial assistance from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and Canada Council for the Arts, to travel to seven glaciers on three continents between 2005-2009 and map their transformation. In addition, my work was endorsed by the UN Water for Life Decade (2005-2015) and the University of Calgary Earth Sciences. The multi-media works in Contemplating Glaciers - A Dialogue, include a hanging textile installation with frottage of glacier surfaces; a wall installation with mould impressions of glacier surfaces cast in wax; paintings; photographs; video; and audio recordings of glacier melting sounds.

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