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Jenine Marsh: HARBINGER
18 October 2025 to 1 February, 2026
Curated by Darryn Doull
Jenine Marsh presents HARBINGER, a site-specific, immersive installation that centers on the alteration of the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery's existing gallery floor. Colliding modes of excavation and construction, her work will examine histories of sacrifice and utopic hope which emerge from the near-universal ritual of throwing coins into fountains and wells to make a wish. The installation will confront coin-wishing as a subtle yet illicit expression of post-capitalist desire, explored through a tactile and temporal alteration of public space.
Related Programs:
Saturday, 18 October
Exhibition Opening and Artist Talk with Jenine Marsh
Opening from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Artist talk at 2:30 p.m.
Saturday, 18 October
KWAG Art Bus from Toronto departing/returning from Mercer Union, a centre for contemporary art, 1286 Bloor St. W. PWYC - $10 donation suggested. Refreshments will be provided.
11:00 – 11:45 a.m.: Tour of Mercer Union's Fall Commission
11:45 a.m.: Bus departs from Mercer Union on St Clarens
1:00 p.m.: Estimated arrival at KWAG
2:30 p.m.: Artist Talk with Jenine Marsh
4:00 p.m.: Bus departs KWAG
5:30 p.m.: Estimated arrival at Mercer Union for disembarking
Jenine Marsh (b. 1984, Calgary AB) lives and works in Toronto ON. Engaging with themes of agency, mortality and value, her sculpture and installations have been exhibited at the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo NY (2025); the Goldfarb Art Gallery, Toronto; Ensemble, New York (2024); Prairie, Chicago (2024); Ashley, Berlin (2024); the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (2024); Cooper Cole, Toronto (2023); Joe Project, Montreal (2023); Gianni Manhattan, Vienna (2023); Union Pacific, London (2023); Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); Franz Kaka, Toronto (2019); Centre Clark, Montreal (2019); Entrée Gallery, Bergen (2018), and Lulu, Mexico City (2015).
The artist would like to thank the Canada Council for the Arts and Partners In Art for their support.
This exhibition is presented with the support of KWAG's Women for Women's Art.
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