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  • Coconut sculpture with snail shell and other materials inside

Boring Earth

18 July to 22 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. 

Related Programs:
Opening Celebration
Saturday, 18 July, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Biography

Flash photo of oranges, apples pears and other organic materials collected on a bed of soil

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). They have an upcoming solo exhibition at Or Gallery (Vancouver, Canada) in May of 2026.
 

Image credits:

Feature image: Boring Earth, instrument for feeling, 2024. dimensions variable. Photo courtesy of LF Documentation by 2024.
Header image: Boring Earth, Atang (detail), 2025. Photo courtesy of Boring Earth. 
Bio image provided by the Artist.

Gallery images: 
Boring Earth, giant tutor, 2024. dimensions variable. Photo courtesy of LF Documentation, by 2024.
Boring Earth, Atang, 2025. Photo courtesy of Boring Earth. 
Boring Earth, rock speak, 2024. dimensions variable. Photo courtesy of LF Documentation, by 2024.