Lifelines, water bodies, is a photo-based exhibition exploring the body entangled within landscapes and the suggestion of land forms created by bodies in flux. In the photographs, human bodies wrap around, tuck into, and hide within crevices, rocks, caves, trees, and each other. Often faceless, lacking a specific identity, their flesh becomes abstracted as they meld into and become an integrated part of the landscape. In other images, there may not be a landscape in sight, and the bodies instead mimic the malleability and transitional quality of an ever-changing environment. The human body becomes less of a portrait of an individual and instead becomes a stand-in for the vulnerability we collectively share as earth-dwellers living on a damaged, yet adaptable planet. ------- Kelly Zantingh (she/her) graduated with a B.A.H in Studio Art from the University of Guelph, ON in April 2016. She has exhibited in Tkaronto (Gardiner Museum, Xpace Cultural Centre, Trinity Square Video), Montreal (Gallery Parfois), and Dawson City (Klondike Institute of Art and Culture/KIAC) and has participated in artist residencies in Portugal, Nova Scotia, and the Yukon. She now lives and works on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen people (Victoria). Kelly Zantingh’s work explores the passage of time and its inevitable association with loss. She examines the fragile and complex structures... read more...