17 December 2024 – 11 March 2025
theDock Centre for Social Impact
300-722 Cormorant St, Victoria, BC
M-F 8:30am-5:00pm
About the Artist:
Chantal New (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist motivated by the intersections of art and social issues. Her expanded drawing practice takes form across sculptural installation, collage, photography, and the re-contextualizing of found objects. The diverse approaches are utilized to address issues ranging from the political to the aesthetic. She currently lives and works on the traditional territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Esquimalt) and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples, colonially known as Victoria, BC.
About the Work:
The work of Chantal New is a response to the conditions of contemporary life, often defined by disconnection, grief, and injustice. Her expanded drawing practice takes form across sculptural installation, photography, and the re-contextualizing of found objects. The diverse approaches are utilized to address issues ranging from the political to the aesthetic. In work that is minimal and emotionally charged, Chantal investigates both the visible and invisible barriers that permeate society.
In this series of drawings and text pieces, New uses the digital photographic archives of Google as a source image to engage with how photography and visuality are embedded in the discourse of criminalization and imprisonment. Using the language of taxonomy and bureaucracy, her practice works to uncover the violence we encounter in everyday systems.
