Proof of Life: JHI 2025-26 Art Exhibition Opening Night

You're invited to the opening of JHI's 2025-26 Art Exhibition!

Join us at the JHI on Wednesday, September 10, 2025 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm for the opening of the exhibition, Proof of Life, including a reception with curator, Master of Visual Studies in Curatorial Studies graduate student Chloe Gordon-Chow. Proof of Life brings together works by Ernesto Cabral de Luna, boring earth, Shannon Garden-Smith, and Jenine Marsh for a reflection on collapse, aftermath, and transformation. Featuring sculpture, installation, photography, and participatory art, the exhibition explores the material and psychological residues of a world in crisis, imagining what might emerge in the wake of ruin.

Proof of Life is a co-production of the Art Museum and the Jackman Humanities Institute. We are grateful for the contributions of the Art Museum, both financial and in-kind, through the contribution of expertise, planning and implementation.

For more information about the exhibition, visit our Art at the JHI web page.

From top left clockwise: 1. Ernesto Cabral de Luna, La Vida en Tres Quebradas / Trocitos de Memoria, 2025. Wooden Plinth, light table, emulsion lifts onto various pieces of broken coloured glass, shattered windshield. Photo courtesy of the artist. 2. Jenine Marsh, detail from Within or beyond my means (3), 2021. Flowers, synthetic rubber, wire, train-pressed coins, acrylic varnish, steel. Photo courtesy of the artist. 3. Shannon Garden-Smith, In a hare’s form III, 2021. Pigmented gelatin, plant clippings, lamp cord, approximately 18” x 18” x 18”. Photo: Lfdocumentation. 4. boring earth, Offerings, 2024 – ongoing. Acrylic resin, shell, pewter, bottle caps, pyrite, amethyst, image transfer, paper shavings, micro plastics, bells, fob key, bird's nest, marbles, pistachio shells, acorn, candle wax, copper coin, wood, silver wire, white sugar, glass beads, steel nut, fish bone, cat fur, cottonwood pod, acrylic, fossils, fire, orchid stem, orach and Ontario pollinator seed, sea grass, dehydrated iris, jasmine, rose, and tulip, neodymium magnets. Photo courtesy of the artist. 5. Jenine Marsh, Charm for the Remainder (4), 2022. Flowers, wire, coin, synthetic rubber, acrylic UV varnish, nails. Photo courtesy of the artist.