Exhibition | Jessica Slipp: Becoming Rock
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Canadian artist Jessica Slipp has been performing and filming in various environments for nearly a decade, following a consistent protocol in which she enters the frame, unfolds a sheet of
Event Details
Canadian artist Jessica Slipp has been performing and filming in various environments for nearly a decade, following a consistent protocol in which she enters the frame, unfolds a sheet of paper printed with rock textures, camouflages her body beneath it, and then leaves the scene. Repeated 40 times in her ongoing video series Becoming Rock, this gesture unfolds across Canadian landscapes ranging from unspoiled seashores, lakesides, and forests to sites shaped by human activity, including industrial compounds, parking lots, woodyards, and extractive sites. At once disconcertingly comic and marked by hopelessness, the work raises questions of disappearance, transformation, and symbiosis, subtly shifting the gaze from the human to the landscape and nurturing an awareness of the surrounding elements to the point of imagining a possible lithified future.