Boring Earth: spontaneous gift
18 July to 15 November 2026
Curated by Darryn Doull
KWAG is pleased to welcome Boring Earth for a major new installation. Boring Earth is an Earth-based collective concerned with discrepant, more-than-human worldings and the portals that jamb between. Their research considers eclipsed and emergent modalities of socionatural relations, muddling extractive dualities through pluriversal inquiry, elemental knowing, and play. A collaboration between artists Patrick Cruz and Laila Fox, and a slippery roster of rocky, watery, animal, vegetal, ethereal, and bacterial bodies, Boring Earth challenges the One-World myth, conjuring plural ways of perceiving/believing/relating across urbanized and invisible ecosystems.
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Opening Reception + Artist Talk
Saturday, 18 July, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Biography
Boring Earth is a Toronto-based collective concerned with discrepant, more-than-human worldings and the portals that jamb between. Their research considers eclipsed and emergent modalities of socionatural relations, muddling extractive dualities through pluriversal inquiry, elemental knowing, and play. A collaboration between artists Patrick Cruz and Laila Fox, and a slippery roster of rocky, watery, animal, vegetal, ethereal, and bacterial bodies, Boring Earth challenges the One-World myth, conjuring plural ways of perceiving/believing/relating in urbanized and invisible ecosystems.
Boring Earth has recently exhibited at Proof of Life at the Jackman Humanities Institute, curated by Chloë Gordon-Chow; shell sounding long at Paul Petro (Toronto, Canada); and Fae Fae Fi Fi Fou Fou, a project with Moire's Catwalk (Toronto, Canada). Currently, they have a solo exhibition, a sliver is a seed, at Or Gallery (Vancouver, Canada) from 12 May to 9 August 2026.
Image credits:
Feature image: Boring Earth, Installation view of a sliver is a seed (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Or Gallery, photo by Blaine Campbell.
Header image: Boring Earth, Atang (detail), 2025. Photo courtesy of Boring Earth.
Boring Earth Bio Photo, 2026. Courtesy of Or Gallery. Photo by Dani Costelo.
Gallery images:
1-2. Boring Earth, Installation view of a sliver is a seed, 2026. Courtesy of Or Gallery, photo by Blaine Campbell.
3. Boring Earth, giant tutor, 2024. dimensions variable. Photo courtesy of LF Documentation, by 2024.
4. Boring Earth, Atang, 2025. Photo courtesy of Boring Earth.
5. Boring Earth, rock speak, 2024. dimensions variable. Photo courtesy of LF Documentation, by 2024.
