To Touch — Screen Weaver

To Touch It Is To Know It
duo exhibition by Elizabeth Johnson & Anne Dahl.
McClure Gallery, Montreal, QC. Dec 17/24 - Jan 25/25

Supine (left), A Thousand Passes Over The Body (Anne Dahl, right)

Supine - cotton jacquard weaving from a 3D rendered image, aluminum rod. 37.5 x 42”

Sunscreen - silk, cyanotype, sodium carbonate, black tea, cotton, polyfil, white bronze by Anne Dahl, 90 x 80"

Compression - cotton Jacquard weaving from a 3D rendered image, white bronze by Anne Dahl, cement bricks, galvanized aircraft cable

Lilac III (left) Satisfaction Out Of A Stone (Anne Dahl, right)

Lilac III - cotton jacquard weaving from a 3D rendered image, aluminum rod. 38 x 33”

Heddles - (collaboration w/ Anne Dahl) silk, cyanotype, sodium carbonate, black tea, repurposed loom heddles & metal bars. 78 x 42”

Save the feeling - cotton jacquard weaving from a 3D rendered image, white bronze by Anne Dahl. 18.5 x 19”

Save the feeling (left), cold metal phone lord (middle), Hollow Wind (right)

This duo show expands upon the material translations of our hyper-paced virtual world, marked by the slow testament of Elizabeth and Anne's respective weaving and metalsmithing processes. A hybrid body of collaborative sculpture and independent works, they translate their own tensions and questions surrounding the rapid growth of AI and technology, including its role in capitalism, colonialism and militaristic warfare. Anne’s metal sculptures explore grounding and critical reflection in relation to these technological overstimulations, while Elizabeth's weavings include self-referential moments to the tools they're created with, magnifying the similarities and history between the worlds of weaving and computing. Their differing material starting points converge with their nuanced desires to simultaneously understand, employ and reject technology.

Exhibition documentation by B. Brookbank.

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