Cold Flows
Show: 9.6SE
Art
The environments in which we encounter stories play a big role in our remembering them. Smells, tastes, visions — all contribute to a fifth sense of a particular moment. In the instance of repeat conditions, your memory can flip back to the story without warning or conscious effort, and associate the experience of its telling as an essential element of its existence. In Cold Flows, Republic Gallery’s December show, Rose Bouthillier takes on a meandering of this exact sort. The exhibition mines her past — a journey into the psychic connections of disparate narratives and how they are created through a tally of divergent experiences. Bouthillier employs subtitles, translations, and generalized dubbing when compiling visuals. Watercolours, sculptural representations, and photographs combine to iterate the bond between time, material and representation, stretching and reconfiguring original experiences to their prospective limits.
