Curatorial Tour: Proof of Life

Join student curator Chloe Gordon-Chow for an exploration of the themes and artworks featured in her exhibition Proof of Life.

Inhabiting dystopia, Proof of Life explores material debris from the end of the world, considering the aftermath of our present-day ruin. Using archival matter and found or foraged objects, the artworks in the exhibition bear traces and remnants of the present, speaking to a not-so-distant future.

Free and open to the public!

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About the Curator

Chloe Gordon-Chow (b.1999) is a Chinese-Canadian curator and researcher based in Tkaronto/Toronto. She is an MVS Curatorial Studies candidate at the University of Toronto and holds a BA in Art History and Sociology from McGill University. Supported by an SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship, her current research mobilizes curatorial practice, exhibition-making, and public programming as a form of speculative world-making and critical intervention. She has a forthcoming exhibition at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto in Spring 2026.

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Image: 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.

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