Modern Fuel is pleased to present Stéfy McKnight's work Traces in our Window Space. This is a co-presentation with LandMarks2017/Repères2017, and be sure not to miss McKnight's work at Malloytown landing, Thousand Islands National Park, from June 16 to 18, 2017!
Traces is a performance that embodies acts of self-reflection, acknowledgement, and responsibility to the land. The performance and its remnants are exhibited in disparate locations, and in turn waver between being both invasive and reasonably unintrusive. By tracing the lifeline scars of the emerald ash borer through charcoal transfers, I am completing my own survey of infected trees at Mallorytown Landing, while also referencing connections between unreconciled histories of colonial expansion and pressing conservation issues.
Stéphanie "Stéfy" McKnight is an artist and creative practitioner currently producing in Kingston Ontario. Stéfy has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Nipissing University (North Bay, ON) and a Master’s of Cultural Studies from Queen’s University (Kingston, ON). Stéfy’s primary artistic medium is installation art in forms of site specific, video; experimental photography, performance and found objects.
