Ginger chimes
๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ท๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฌ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ผ โ an exhibition by mamumifi, the collaborative practice by Jennifer Laflamme and Marisa Mรผsing. This exhibition presents a new body of work spanning sculpture, textile, metallurgy, silverwork, painting and installation. Exploring individual and shared experiences with AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) identity and diaspora, ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ท๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฌ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ผ explores growth, community, and tactility through a poetic vocabulary of forms. Akin to the rhizomatic roots of ginger, the logic of this exhibition extends horizontally, forming numerous and nebulous connections that perpetuate balanced and a spirit of interdependence.
Mamumifi is a multidisciplinary collective developed by two Asian-Canadian artists residing in Toronto working with a mixture of sculpture, textile, painting and mixed media. The duo is inspired by diasporic stories, specifically AAPI as a way of bridging gaps between generations of communities where cultures have been historically suppressed. ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ท๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฌ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ผ is their first exhibition as a duo.
Everything has meaning because of the love that was there at the beginning
Melting snow trickled to form rivers, miracles, mirages
Phoenix trees, red willow, reeds bent by the river bank
Lotus ponds in morning light
Apples so sweet they stuck to the mouth
Dappled by light from another morning
anotherโs dream
Pearl to reflect memory
in a quiet environment
A window cocooned in silk or mist
scent as something gained when self unspools
Chain of time, its elemental shine
the basic properties of light
The centre of change is not loss
The root of you that chimes
text by: Lily Wang
