100 years then and hereafter

100 years then and hereafter is an exhibition of new works inspired by my excavation of Clarington’s historic archives. In this work, I look back 100 years into the municipality’s documented history, finding diary entries, political documents, and newspaper headlines with uncanny similarities to the present moment. With my findings as the grounds for the exhibition, I examine social and political cycles, while exploring ways to disrupt the archival process when looking to the future.

The exhibition brings together text works based on archival headlines and tools that have been altered from their historic context to offer different imagined purposes. In collaboration with filmmaker Alyssa Bistonath, we propose alternative archival practices, and invite community members to contribute to future historical records adding to a more complex narrative of our times.

100 years then and hereafter invites us to think about the ways in which history is recorded, repeated, and remembered.

Curated by Sandy Saad-Smith
Documentation by LF Documentation