Tau Lewis: when last you found me here

Curator, Leah Taylor

ARTIST TALK/TOUR
Friday, May 24 at 6:30 pm
OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, May 24 at 7:30 pm

 Exhibition take-away essay by Magdalyn Asimakis 

Tau Lewis combines natural and synthetic materials to create simulations, or vessels, of living organisms. Lewis is a Jamaican-Canadian sculptor whose self-taught practice is rooted in healing personal, collective and historical traumas through labour. She employs methods of construction such as hand sewing, carving and assemblage of repurposed and reclaimed materials to build these time capsules.

With a deep consideration for the objects she utilizes, Lewis recognizes they have been ‘passed through multiple hands and are energetically charged, which helps bring the figurative works to life.’ Lewis’ material practice is directly influenced by her environment, while conceptually the sculptures investigate black identity and agency, memory and recovery, and African diaspora.