Camille Jodoin-eng: water shrine - nuit blanche 2019

“Water Shrine” is the latest in a series of artworks by Camille Jodoin-Eng that have been inspired by shrines and temples. The artist sees these spaces as devoted to reflecting on otherworldly existence. This outdoor installation will be an experiment on the interplay between physical and psychological space. Jodoin-Eng constructs optical instruments that engage the spatial and sensory properties of light to pay tribute to our ultimate life source. Imagining a potential future where contaminated water transforms the human form, “Water Shine” will use the body as a water vessel, and highlight humanity’s relationship to water sources. Jodoin-Eng’s work, past and present engages repetition and symbology to create physical manifestations of space and project an infinite vastness.

Nuit Blanche 2019: Continuum

The city of Toronto and its inhabitants are in a constant state of becoming, part of an ongoing continuum of experience and ideas. This progression follows many paths through the night of Nuit Blanche. The cycle of creation and destruction, the elevation of the notable into a place of renown nobility, the challenge of finding inner calm and enlightenment in the midst of it all. Underlined by the ever-present renewal of night into day, Nuit Blanche 2019 responds to the interconnected, increasingly polarized and often contradictory paradoxes of life in the changing city.

Photos courtesy of the City of Toronto