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Mighty Niagara Film Fest 12-16 Nov 2025

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In the Shadows of Your Home

In the Shadows of Your Home

Setayesh Babaei, Bethany Kenyon, Amber Lee Williams, and Deniz Kanbal, and curated by Rachelle Wunderink

Sat 7 Feb 2026 – Sat 14 March 2026

Opening Reception Sat 21 Feb 2026 10AM-12PM

In the Shadows of Your Home is an invitation to witness the often-unseen rhythms of care that quietly pulse through domestic life. From sleepless nights and sticky floors to fleeting moments of exhaustion, laughter, and grief, this exhibition honours the labour, maintenance, and emotional depth of mothering. Featuring four artists, Setayesh Babaei, Bethany Kenyon, Amber Lee Williams, and Deniz Kanbal, and curated by Rachelle Wunderink, the exhibition reflects on the layered realities of care-taking, where care is constant, consuming, and deeply complex.


Each artist approaches mothering and carework from a distinct perspective within their practice. Babaei explores the importance of rest, allowing her artistic practice to follow the tender, demanding cadence of caring for an infant. Kenyon reflects on the act of re-mothering herself while taking care of her child. Williams reckons with the invisibility of domestic maintenance and the way it can render her presence ghostlike within the home. Kanbal’s practice takes a more abstract form, shaped by fragmented moments of making that emerge in the margins of mothering.

Together, the artists move through their artistic practice, foregrounding care, maintenance, and feminised labour as integral to their work. In doing so, the exhibition invites viewers to pause and consider: who is doing this work in your home? Join us for our mid-exhibition reception on February 21 from 10am-12pm! We’ll have kid-friendly activities, including Saturday morning cartoons and a weaving workshop. Enjoy plenty of breakfast treats, from cereal to donuts.

Notes about Funding:

This exhibition was made possible by LevelUP! 2025-2026 Pilot Program in partnership with Mothra and Balancing Act. Thank you for the mentorship and funds that allowed me to curate this show.

Short Media Work | Art in Action: Climate

Short Media Work | Art in Action: Climate

Multiple

Fri 30 Jan 2026 – Sat 28 Feb 2026

The Niagara Artists Centre presents a series of short media art films curated from the Vtape collection that engage with environmental issues through experimental and poetic approaches. The works by Mike Hoolboom, Shelley Niro, Jeremy Drummond, and Josephine Massarella explore themes of ecological fragility and our relationship to the natural world using moving image, sound, and digital processes to provoke reflection rather than offer simple solutions.

Spotted with Pansies

Spotted with Pansies

Chris Glabb

Sun 1 Feb 2026 – Sun 12 April 2026

Opening Reception Sun 1 Feb 2026

Spotted with Pansies explores how landscape can be weaponized to enact harm against marginalized communities. A pansy is both a flower and a derogatory term for a feminine gay man, making it simultaneously beautiful and inflammatory. The title of the series refers to a time in the artist’s life when, before coming out, he feared being seen with other homosexual men: afraid that this association would expose him as “one of them.” These works pervert ornamental tradition, embracing fashion and Internet culture as Queer muses. Overwhelming the architectural surface with spots underscores how Queerness is often rendered decorative and claustrophobic, ostentatious to the point of suffocation.

This project was supported by the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.

Select works on loan from de Montigny Contemporary.

A Fog That Won't Burn Away

A Fog That Won't Burn Away

B Mosher

Fri 30 Jan 2026 – Sat 2 May 2026

Opening Reception Sat 7 Feb 2026 6:00 PM


A fog that won’t burn away is a mobile comprised of suspended paper forms imprinted with speculative camouflage patterns. Risoprint textures blend like shadows tangling across their surfaces, flitting between certain clarity and apparent obscurity. It dissolves and reforms in a revolving dance, responding to currents of air with delicate movements, moving like tiny moth wings or weather vanes.

The work is a bittersweet investigation of instability, moving through that unknowable space, diffusing predictability, to create new meanings. A soft ache of unknowing, where fleeting certainties hum against the fog. In here, patiently blinking and squinting are tools to sift clarity from haze. Softening my gaze allows noise to transition into form. All this straining to see a clear path through the fog hurts my brain. Uncertainty’s indelible wash colours everything I see, setting me in motion. Precision resolving and dissolving in thin air.

My sculptural work points towards our interconnectedness with our surroundings and the vulnerability hanging in the balance of our shared ecosystems. Often I feel ineffective and powerless to make change.

- B Mosher

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