Where Do We Go From Here?: Julie Luth & Garvin Chinnia

Where Do We Go From Here? is an interdisciplinary exhibition comprised of artwork from recent University of Windsor MFA graduates Julie Luth and Garvin Chinnia. Though each artist’s work is distinct in form, both bodies of work explore the uncertain nature of the future from personal and global perspectives.

Luth’s series, I Don’t Know These People, appropriates decontextualized images of everyday life from her collection of found photographs to examine the relationship between physical photographs, memory, and nostalgia. Using collaboration with generative AI, analogue darkroom processes, and sculptural interventions, Luth merges digital and physical techniques to create new and altered versions of the past. Her works challenge the role of personal photographic archives in daily life and invite reflection on their function once their intended context and audience no longer exists.

Chinnia’s Life Support Systems is an ongoing series that engages with the human species ecological power, and whether we can leverage it to be more responsible to our co-inhabitors on this planet. Using a variety of sculptural languages from the heavy industrial to organic bioart, his installations interrogate humanity’s ecological role. His work seeks to provoke change from highly destructive modes of extraction, into reciprocal modes of growth.

Where Do We Go From Here? materializes each artists’ anxieties about the future into the present. Both Luth and Chinnia utilize found objects to probe questions regarding the sustainability of our relationship with the natural world, what it means to be remembered, and what happens when we forget or are forgotten.

June 20 – September 11

Reception: Fri. July 18, 6-8pm