The Lost & Found

🌟𝒾𝓃𝓉𝓇𝑜𝒹𝓊𝒸𝒾𝓃𝑔 🌟𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙗𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 artist Hea R. Kim🧚‍♂️visual artist:

Hea R. Kim (she/her) is a South Korean-born, multidisciplinary artist whose immersive installations explore themes of cultural hybridity, memory, and transformation. Her work often combines fiber and ceramic techniques with mass-produced objects, challenging the boundaries between craft and contemporary art. She has exhibited across Canada and South Korea and continues to develop work that bridges tradition and reinvention through materially layered, emotionally resonant installations.

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photos: Guy L'Heureux, Yuxi Photography , Jongwook Park

𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙗𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚

🐇🌟🌷🪭 May 30 - June 20💐💫🧶🪡

"A vivid showcase of boundary-pushing craft practices that reclaim and revel in what has been minimized as the frivolously feminine, the scandalously q***r, and the exotically ornamental."

𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙗𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚
Curated by Madeline Collins
with Théo Bignon Hea R. Kim🧚‍♂️visual artist Molly Jesse-Fujiye Caldwell and ｌｕｘ ｇｏｗ－ｈａｂｒｉｃｈ

The Lost & Found Project Space
420 Queen St E, Toronto

🌈Rain or shine! 🌸material disobedience🐇continues until June 20 (more info tlaf.ca)

Come visit this gorgeous, radically decadent exhibition! 💗420 Queen St E, Toronto
The Lost & Found Project Space
Can't make it? We will also open between visiting hours if you dm us!

Featuring artists Théo Bignon (Théo Bignon), Molly JF Caldwell (Molly Jesse-Fujiye Caldwell), Lux Gow-Habrich (ｌｕｘ ｇｏｗ－ｈａｂｒｉｃｈ) and Hea R. Kim (Hea R. Kim🧚‍♂️visual artist) and curated by Madeline Collins madeline

Rhinestones, beads, crystals, embroidery, textiles, and ceramics have all been variously perceived as symbols of “excessive” cultures or lifestyles, an association that has served to reinforce creative hierarchies and trivialize marginalized identities. From sequined embroideries that immortalize gay cruising spots, tongue-in-cheek textiles exalting vilified reality stars, fantastical recreations of ancient Chinese accessories, and surreal ceramic creatures crusted in pom-poms and beads, material disobedience challenges the stigma of "excess" and translates it into creative inspiration and radically decadent possibilities.

This exhibition and programming is a part of Openwork, an artist-led intitative by TLAF Collective (The L👁st & F👁und) to encourage new voices, diversity, and critical engagement in the field of experimental craft and material-based practice. material disobedience is generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. The panel discussion is hosted by Harbourfront Centre, and we would like to acknowledge the incredible support of artverb* (artverb*)

🍾🌟Join us for our opening reception this Saturday 6-10pm! 🎊🧵

The Lost & Found will be open May 30 for the opening reception of material disobedience, Openwork’s exhibition! Grab some refreshments by and meet the amazing artists — Théo Bignon (), Molly JF Caldwell (), Lux Gow-Habrich (.sparkledust) and Hea R. Kim ().

Rhinestones, beads, crystals, embroidery, textiles, and ceramics have all been variously perceived as symbols of “excessive” cultures or lifestyles, an association that has served to reinforce creative hierarchies and trivialize marginalized identities. From sequined embroideries that immortalize gay cruising spots, tongue-in-cheek textiles exalting vilified reality stars, fantastical recreations of ancient Chinese accessories, and surreal ceramic creatures crusted in pom-poms and beads, material disobedience challenges the stigma of "excess" and translates it into creative inspiration and radically decadent possibilities. Curated by Madeline Collins ().

This exhibition and programming is a part of Openwork, an artist-led intitative by TLAF Collective () to encourage new voices, diversity, and critical engagement in the field of experimental craft and material-based practice. material disobedience is generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. The panel discussion is hosted by Harbourfront Centre, and we would like to acknowledge the incredible support of artverb* ()

🩷🧶Not to be missed!🐇🩷

Join the artists and curator of 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 for a panel discussion on experimental craft, catharsis and reparative care!

Sat. May 30, 1-3pm, FREE with RSVP

Harbourfront Centre Studio Theatre (235 Queens Quay W). ASL interpretation provided.


Register at the link in bio!

In this panel discussion, Théo Bignon , Molly JF Caldwell , Hea R. Kim , Lux Gow-Habrich .sparkledust, and curator Madeline Collins will consider craft as a liberatory tool for addressing social, economic, political and/or cultural harms, while also being deeply embedded in personal histories and self-expressions for q***r, femme, and racialized artists. The artists will discuss experimental craft’s ability to challenge traditional hierarchies (in both life and art) and as a means of repairing relations with trivialized or undervalued labour, knowledge, and ways of making. See you there!

Graciously supported by the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts.