Artist Walkthrough: Cybèle Young

Join Cybèle Young for an artist walkthrough of Kamiphony.

Discover how the concept of uselessness, Young’s personal experience with menopause, and the influence of her great-uncle, composer Colin McPhee, inspired the exhibition and led her to explore the space between what no longer works and something new that has yet to take form. Learn why music and sound are equally vital to the installation, transforming the machines’ repetitive movements into a shifting experience of motion, rhythm, shadow and sound.

Immediately preceding the walkthrough, join Gord Peteran and curator David Liss for a conversation about Lessons in Objectology. Enjoy an afternoon of two engaging programs with artists! Register here: https://in-conversation-peteran-liss.eventbrite.ca

Each event requires a separate registration.

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Cybèle Young is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist and author. Her decades-long collaboration with Japanese paper anchors a practice concerned with transformation, ritual, and shifting perspective – from intricate paper miniatures to kinetic installations. Drawing from Dada, Fluxus, and the anthropology of play, she builds poetic structures that unsettle the familiar.

Since graduating from the Ontario College of Art & Design in 1995, Young has presented more than twenty solo exhibitions and over thirty group exhibitions across Canada and internationally, including New York, Los Angeles, London, Oslo, Singapore, Beijing, and Tokyo. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections, including the Canada Council Art Bank, Global Affairs Canada, BMO Financial Group, OMERS, and Ernst & Young. She has received more than thirty grants and awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award and a Canada Council residency in Paris, and is represented by Forum Gallery in New York and Los Angeles.

Her practice continues to evolve through interdisciplinary projects, bringing together sculpture, movement, sound, film, and participation. Kamiphony marks a significant new chapter in this ongoing exploration.