Simon Petepiece, Mesh Tapestry 01, 2020
Doug Dumais, A Landscape for Construction (Return), 2020
Background Image: Pieter Bruegel, The Return of the Herd, 1565. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Reproduced with permission from the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
Intangible Materials
Duo Exhibition
Doug Dumais | Simon Petepiece
July 21 - September 16, 2022
City Hall Art Gallery
Ottawa, ON
This exhibition employs construction materials to make the cultural underpinnings of architectural space legible. Dumais’ photographs of construction sites, and Petepiece’s paintings on materials such as drywall and debris netting, are interventions into these overlooked scenes and objects. Their work affords viewers the time and space to contemplate the network of relations that entangle architectural spaces and their users.