The Image CentreGarden District / TMU campus
Madison Chow: Overflow
This exhibition has ended.
Camera-less lumen prints made at the shoreline, letting lake and ocean water etch their own portraits onto photographic paper. Student Gallery.
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Madison Chow left the camera at home. She met the water at the shoreline, often in the quiet of the morning, and laid photographic paper at its edge with plants, objects from the shore or her own body arranged on top. Then she let the water rush over it while sunlight or a UV lamp did the exposing. What you see on the wall is the record the lake or the sea left behind.
The Student Gallery holds lumen prints and photograms from 2024 and 2025, made in both freshwater and saltwater, from Lake Ontario to the Pacific Ocean. They are shown as digital prints replicated from the originals. Chow calls them the water's self-portraits.
No critic has reviewed it, so come for the process rather than a verdict. It closes on 18 October. Admission is free, Wednesdays run until 8pm, and Richard Avedon Immortal is in the same building.
Look for
Saltwater Lumen (Full Body), Pacific Ocean
Look for the 2024 print where Chow put her own body into the composition at the Pacific shoreline and let the seawater mark the paper around her.
Good for
- Cheap Culture
- Evening Visits
- Locals Who've Seen It All
Skip if
You want pictures of the lake: these are marks water made on paper, shown as digital reproductions.
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- The Image CentreCanmenwalker / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
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- Campbell House MuseumJK Liu / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0