The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (VAC) invites you to attend its Summer Exhibitions Opening Reception on Saturday, May 13, 2023, from 2 - 4 PM. Join Curator Megan Kammerer for a guided walkthrough of this season’s multimedia installations alongside exhibiting artists Adam Basanta and Heather Nicol.

Adam Basanta’s Every Beloved Object is a multimedia exhibition exploring the intersection between ancient ruins, recycling technology, and contemporary waste. Fragments are valued in archeology because they uncover more about human behaviour than lavish gems or relics. Trash becomes artifact. A potshard may reveal archaic customs around communal gathering, a broken seal may illustrate sacred mythology or trace trading routes across newly divided landscapes. If garbage tells us the most about ancient people, what can our waste tell us about our current behaviours? 

Heather Nicol's newest audio work Prelude/Requiem positions itself at both extremes of the human life cycle. Built upon songs for lulling infants to sleep or easing passage into a final resting place, this immersive sound installation uses multichannel audio and light to encourage introspection across oral cultures.