Drawing on a career in carpentry, By This Means resituates the building trades within the constructs of gender, identity, and art history. Rachel Yoder takes the tools and her daily experience of construction to make paintings and prints, incorporating individual components, accumulation, structure, repetition, creation of space, addition, and layering into her work. Common symbols of construction – hammers and ladders – are repurposed as a means of escape and self-examination. Meaning is held in the forms and the structures, telling stories, and revealing additional information.
The dams and the hydroelectric power generators of the Kootenay river provide immense amounts of electricity and royalties to surrounding communities while protecting from flooding and drought. They continually flow, burst, store, block, channel, and power existing and speculative realities. Queering the Dams documents a series of interactions with the landscape that generate new narratives and unsettle our relationship with industrial infrastructure. prOphecy sun explores these tensions and contradictions through ecological acts of care – melding landscape, body, and technology in new temporal, filmic, and sonic ways.