Jenine Marsh: HARBINGER

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 
Tour of Mercer Union: 11:00 – 11:45 a.m. 
Bus departs Mercer: 11:45 a.m.
Bus departs KWAG: 4:00 p.m.
Advance registration required
PWYC - $10 donation suggested
 

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 Canadian 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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