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𝓘𝓵𝓵𝓾𝓭 𝓣𝓮𝓶𝓹𝓾𝓼(summer room)🌞
Thank you everybody for coming to the show I curated 💚
The show featured work by @kristi_xy @singmariamaria @eve.t_eve.t @sk.maston @tremblay.ingrid @leeay
! Thank you @ignitegallery team for this opportunity 😌

Photo credit @em___moor by @leeay

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Wintering is for drying persimmons 🧡 The thing most wintered is the thing most summered #干し柿 by @leeay

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𝓘𝓵𝓵𝓾𝓭 𝓣𝓮𝓶𝓹𝓾𝓼(winter room) ❄️
Front: 𝘞𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘭(s) (2023) @singmariamaria
Back: 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦 (2025) @leeay

Thank you everybody for coming to the show I curated 💚
The show featured work by @kristi_xy @singmariamaria @eve.t_eve.t @sk.maston @tremblay.ingrid @leeay
Summer room documentation coming up next! Thank you @ignitegallery team for this opportunity 😌

Photo credit @em___moor taken in OCAD University by @leeay

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We’re open!!! I am so pleased to be showing this amazing group of artists please come tomorrow and celebrate with us on Thursday 3:30-5pm

@singmariamaria will be activating her work at 4:30 with a performance. Not to be missed!
Beautiful curation by @leeay

Illud Tempus
February 5–February 25

Opening Reception: February 6th 3:30pm to 5:00pm
4:30pm Performance by mihyun maria kim
Leeay Aikawa, Kristi Chen, mihyun maria kim, SK Maston, Eve Tagny, Ingrid Tremblay Wall text in a gallery with a shell sculpture in the corner taken in OCAD University by @leeay

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Find these little ones at 𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒅 𝑻𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒖𝒔 @ignitegallery throughout February 25, with vernissage tomorrow Thursday (15:30-17:00)💓—that really was a lot of packing!
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Thank you so much @eiramcintosh and @josephhinds for an amazing workshop, and thank you @ocadusustainablecolourlab @nicolecollinsartist for walnuts💓🙏 by @leeay

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I’m poised to introduce a group show 𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒅 𝑻𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒖𝒔, which I had the honor to curate and participate as an artist. The show opens this Thursday - do we see you?
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𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒅 𝑻𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒖𝒔 (February 5 –February 25, 2025)
🎉Opening Reception: Thursday, February 6th
🕞3:30pm to 5:00pm at @ignitegallery
⚡Live performance by @singmariamaria at 4:30pm, Feb 6th
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A historian Mircea Eliade defines 𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒅 𝑻𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒖𝒔  as “the sacred time and space; the stories of the pure origins to which we wish to return,” what Eliade calls the myth of the eternal return. At the current profane time impacted by the toxic productivity of imperial capitalist culture, not only are we always wishing to have more time, but our disconnection from the place we reside is being deteriorated by our constant desire to be there, not here.
The exhibition is a timely revisit to Eliade’s theory and gathers work by six artists Leeay Aikawa, Kristi Chen, mihyun maria kim, SK Maston, Eve Tagny, and Ingrid Tremblay. Engaged with the parallels between time and (un)time, their work preludes Illud Tempus, inviting viewers to re-enter into “the plenary condition of the World’s beginning, the perfection of the ‘first instant’ before anything had been involved with the work of Time” (Eliade).

Artists:
Kristi Chen (@kristi_xy)
mihyun maria kim (@singmariamaria)
SK Maston (@sk.maston)
Eve Tagny (@eve.t_eve.t)
Ingrid Tremblay (@tremblay.ingrid)
Leeay Aikawa (@leeay)

Curated by Leeay Aikawa (@leeay)

Huge thanks to the amazing team of @ignitegallery Morgan, Tibi and student monitors🙏💓 by @leeay

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Next week we install Illud Tempus, mark your calendar for the opening reception!

February 5 –February 25
Opening Reception: February 6th 3:30pm to 4:30pm

4:30pm performance by @singmariamaria not to be missed.

Leeay Aikawa, Kristi Chen, mihyun maria kim, SK Maston, Eve Tagny, Ingrid Tremblay.

Curated by Leeay Aikawa

A historian Mircea Eliade defines Illud Tempus as “the sacred time and space; the stories of the pure origins to which we wish to return,” what Eliade calls the myth of the eternal return. At the current profane time impacted by the toxic productivity of imperial-patriarchal capitalist culture, not only are we always wishing to have more time, but our disconnection from the place we reside is being deteriorated by our constant desire to be there, not here.
The exhibition is a timely revisit to Eliade’s theory and gathers work by six artists Leeay Aikawa, Kristi Chen, mihyun maria kim, SK Maston, Eve Tagny, and Ingrid Tremblay. Engaged with the parallels between time and (un)time, their work preludes Illud Tempus, inviting viewers to re-enter into “the plenary condition of the World’s beginning, the perfection of the ‘first instant’ before anything had been involved with the work of Time” (Eliade).

Image credit:
(Ingrid Tremblay, aligements, Icons,2022)

Alt text: Artist’s hand holds a small wooden carving of a cross-legged sitting figure.

@leeay @kristi_xy @singmariamaria @tremblay.ingrid @sk.maston @eve.t_eve.t Artist's hand holds a small wooden carving of a cross-legged sitting figure. taken in OCAD University by @leeay

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The first sunset following the longest night of the year😮‍💨 by @leeay

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🍂🥥🦪🌳✨🍾🐬🍼🪀🐚🪶🦀 by @leeay

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Seasonal notes from October and November-
trees with woodpeckers are not well but not their fault
Skill= to be able to find peace by highway by @leeay

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Instruction:
1. Brush the 𝘉𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶 𝘔𝘪𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳 using the brush below with your intention for the practice/ or state what you want to see
2. Settle your awareness on this 𝘉𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶 𝘔𝘪𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳 (hung on eye level) and meditate on the blurred reflection of self
3. Transport

𝘉𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶 𝘔𝘪𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳(2024)
Pine needles, cotton thread, found object, wood, grass

Photo: Guy LHeureux by @leeay

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I feel VERY lucky and honored to assist OCADU’s new Sustainable Colour Lab this semester, investigating what T’karonto Black Walnut can offer and teach us😌

We have hosted series of amazing workshops around Black Walnut already including:
-Dye workshop led by @julia.rose.sutherland
-Encaustic/ ink workshop led by @nicolecollinsartist
-Making oil paint workshop led by @lauchie
-Soap workshop led by Lauren Nurse @smallspadefarm
Thank you very much for the opportunity! We hope that this sustainable way of making and working with land would guide us towards the path of healing and well-being of each other.
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@ocadusustainablecolourlab is created by 3 amazing profs Nicole Collins (@nicolecollinsartist ) Julia Rose (@julia.rose.sutherland )Sutherland and Lauchie Reid (@lauchie ) to promote and explore more land-centered and sustainable art practice within and beyond @ocaduniversity community. taken in OCAD University by @leeay

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