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Over and Over Again
Carol-Ann Apilado, Kuh Del Rosario, Sukaina Kubba and Esmelyn Miranda Orozco use weaving to probe broken patterns. At the Jackman Humanities Institute, Mon–Fri 9–4.
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Carol-Ann Apilado unpicked a Thai jasmine rice bag and wove it back together in cotton as a small handled bag, Milagrosa. Facing her work, Esmelyn Miranda Orozco reweaves polypropylene sacks from Venezuela's food crisis and migration into geometric patterns drawn from 1950s and '60s Venezuelan Modernism.
Four artists take weaving loosely here, in materials that toe the line between natural and synthetic. You start in the 10th-floor seating area of the Jackman Humanities Institute, where Kuh Del Rosario's small figures of paper pulp, hand-twined plastic and chili powder sit beside Sukaina Kubba's family textiles, traced line by line with a 3D pen. The weavings hang in two meeting rooms. If your family keeps its rice bags for reuse as tote bags, Apilado has taken the habit a step further.
Entry is free, but this is a working institute: it's open weekdays 9am to 4pm only, and the museum asks you to call 416-978-7415 first to check that every work is accessible.
Look for
Apilado's Milagrosa
Look for a Thai jasmine rice bag taken apart and rewoven in cotton into a small bag with a handle, about 12 by 22 inches.
Apilado's Glitches
A series of roughly 15-inch squares of handwoven cotton in Ilokano patterns, each with an irregularity she wove in on purpose.
Kubba's Corners of Your Sky, Achernar
A Kurdish rug from Senneh, Iran, redrawn by hand in 3D-pen plastic filament at 67 by 46 and a half inches, wear and flaws included.
Miranda Orozco's Materia flexible
Woven polypropylene food sacks, about three feet tall, reworked into geometric shapes that echo mid-century Venezuelan Modernism.
Del Rosario's The Whorl Tells Tales
A small figure on a metal frame built from paper pulp, ceramic, sumac bark pulp, bioplastic and chili powder.
Good for
- Cheap Culture
- Locals Who've Seen It All
Skip if
You want a proper gallery: the works sit in a working institute's lounge and meeting rooms.
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- Art Museum at the University of TorontoUnderline Studio, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Royal Ontario MuseumMaksim Sokolov (Maxergon), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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