Catalogue cover : Anne Katrine Senstad; The Sugarcane Labyrinth (2009-11)

Curated by Celina Jeffery. Catalog available HERE

“The preternatural, as explored by these artists, disturb the ontological boundaries of art, nature and metaphysics. They exist within the folds of classificatory thresholds: both beyond and between nature and supernature; human and animal; vegetable and mineral; living and dead.” Celina Jeffrey.

Preternatural is the catalogue for a multi-site art exhibition that took place from December 2011 through February 2012, in Ottawa, Canada that I participated in.
The exhibition draws from the idea that art itself is a form of preternatural pursuit, in which the artists participating explore the bewildering condition of being in between the mundane and the marvelous in nature. It questions a world that understands itself as accessible, reachable, and ‘knowable’ and counters it with a consideration of this heterogenous proposition.