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SUMMARY:Celina Eceiza – A material called Earth\, Volume 2: I will remember this body
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” row_position_desktop=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” flex_gap_desktop=”10px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]Curated by Sylvie Fortin \nOrganized by MSVU Art Gallery \nI will remember this body\, the second volume of Celina Eceiza’s serial exhibition A material called Earth\, reimagines her artistic entanglements by drawing on the unique convergence of feminist\, conceptual\, and craft practices that distinguishes artmaking in Halifax. \nThe Argentine artist’s situated installation cuts across the Brutalist features of the Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery (MSVU AG) with an ephemeral architecture that immerses visitors in two distinct yet related environments. Hand-dyed and embroidered textiles\, a monumental wall drawing\, site-specific sculptures\, and selected works from the MSVU AG’s permanent collection metabolize both the tall\, coffered gallery and the institution’s history. Oversize fabric books sewn onto the floor\, wheatpasted drawings\, and hand-drawn texts reconfigure the adjacent balconied gallery into a den-like space whose jostling material and narrative registers translate the experiences that have shaped Eceiza’s understanding of art’s purpose and potential\, which is indebted to the concept of anthropophagy\, or cultural cannibalism. \nVolume 2: I will remember this body is the second of many loosely connected exhibitions that make up A material called Earth. Experimenting with forms that contract\, detract\, and disperse\, this serial exhibition is a curatorial laboratory and a response to polycrisis: one ambitious exhibition whose locally anchored parts come together\, one after the other\, across North America over the course of three years. A material called Earth also speculates on how an exhibition moves as it travels by foregrounding its impermanence and situatedness\, and the ways it channels energies\, circulates resources\, entangles economies\, gifts experiences\, and metabolizes images and ideas. It explores what an exhibition leaves behind and what it carries forward as it reconfigures\, or rather\, recycles itself. In this\, it tests how migratory exhibition practices might enrich our artistic and social ecosystems and our imaginaries. \nThis project’s Canadian “volumes” are generously supported by Canada Council for the Arts. Volume 3 will be on view at the Burnaby Art Gallery\, Burnaby\, BC\, June 24 – August 29\, 2027. Volume 1: The life of corners was on view at the Art Gallery of Burlington\, Burlington\, ON\, May 16 – August 16\, 2026. Volume 4 will be announced shortly. \nImage: Celina Eceiza\, A material called Earth\, Volume 1: The life of corners (detail)\, 2026. Art Gallery of Burlington. Photo: Darren Rigo.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” row_position_desktop=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” flex_gap_desktop=”10px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\nOpening Reception and Public Conversation\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_id=”talkdate”]Saturday 16 January at 2pm[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Curator Zoë Chan and Dr. Marnina Gonick\, Canada Research Chair in Gender Identity and Social Practices at MSVU\, will hold a public conversation discussing the exhibition and its larger social and artistic contexts.\n\nPUBLIC READING\, 2 March 2016 @ Noon \n“What was I thinking? “ public reading/open mic reading of stories\, poems\, notes\, designs\, plans\, schemes\, dreams\, etc from when the participants were teenagers.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” row_position_desktop=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” flex_gap_desktop=”10px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]About the Artist \nCelina Eceiza is an artist based in Buenos Aires. Solo exhibitions of her work have been presented at FRAC Bretagne\, Rennes\, France (2026)\, Art Gallery of Burlington\, Burlington\, ON (2026)\, Halle Für Kunst Steiermark\, Graz\, Austria (2025) and Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (2024). Her work has also been featured in international exhibitions including the 18th Istanbul Biennial (2025) and is held in public and private collections. \nAbout the Curator \nSylvie Fortin  is an interdependent curator\, writer\, and editor based between Montréal\, New York and Buenos Aires and working internationally. Her recent projects include Celina Eceiza\, A material called Earth\, Volume 1: The life of corners\, Art Gallery of Burlington\, Burlington\, ON (2026); Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens\, An Animated Assembly\, Nanaimo Art Gallery\, Nanaimo\, BC (2026); Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens\, Convertirse en piedra (Turning to Stone)\, Móvil\, Buenos Aires (2025)\, and the group exhibition Punto de fuga\, Móvil\, Buenos Aires (2024). She has held leadership roles at La Biennale de Montréal and ART PAPERS\, and her writing has appeared in publications including Artforum\, Frieze\, and e-flux Criticism.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” row_position_desktop=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” content_layout=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]Opening Reception   \nSaturday\, September 12\, 1:00 – 2:00 pm \nArtist and Curator Talk/Tour with Celina Eceiza and Sylvie Fortin \nSaturday\, September 12\, 1:30 – 2:30 pm \nJoin us in celebrating the opening reception of Celina Eceiza’s A material called Earth\, Volume 2: I will remember this body. Eceiza’s immersive installation will serve as the site for a conversation between the artist and curator Sylvie Fortin. Light refreshments will be served\, and all are welcome to attend.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” content_layout=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]Related Programming \nCrafternoons: Drawing Marathon \nThursday\, September 10\, 2:00–4:00 pm\n \nMSVU Library & Archives\, 13 Lumpkin Road \nJoin us for a drawing workshop facilitated by artist Celina Eceiza. This is a drop-in event; no registration or prior drawing experience required. \nPresented in collaboration with the Mount Saint Vincent University Library & Archives. \n  \nFiction as Art Writing \nFriday\, September 11\, 2:00–3:00 pm \nAll Nations Church\, 2535 Robie Street \nJoin us at the Halifax Art Book Fair for a reading/writing session featuring Cesar Aira\, facilitated by Karin Cope and Sylvie Fortin. Drop-in; no registration required. \nPresented in collaboration with the Halifax Art Book Fair 2026. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/celina-eceiza-a-material-called-earth-volume-2-i-will-remember-this-body/
LOCATION:Canada
CATEGORIES:Drawing & Printmaking,Feminisms,History,Sculpture & Installation,Textiles
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