Bodies Of Water
Every day, we walk over an ancient pulse buried beneath sidewalks and condominiums—the very lifeblood of the earth. Toronto, like many cities around the world, is built over rivers, creeks, and wetlands. Most of these waterways have been entombed underground and forgotten, only to remind us of their presence when a summer storm floods the streets.
This exhibition combines architecture with art installation, text, video, and discussions that invite visitors to engage with Toronto’s hidden waterways, encouraging us to consider rivers as relational beings.
Rivers are our origin stories and the life force behind our settlements, mythologies, and systems of cultivation and exchange.
What does it mean to live in kinship with rivers?
How can we come to understand the river, rather than simply map it?
If she could speak, what would she say?
Amrit Phull is a multi-disciplinary designer, educator, and award-winning editor. Her pedagogy and practice encourages a view of architecture as a tool for social change, informed by contextual narratives of people and place.
Lori Harrison is an emerging visual artist based in Toronto, Canada. Her work examines our complicated relationship with the land. In an era of climate crisis and environmental degradation, she explores themes of nostalgia and cultural frameworks to create awareness of what we stand to lose.
