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Enfilade

Anne Low

May 16, 2025 - August 29, 2025

Kenderdine Art Gallery

Curated by Leah Taylor

In Enfilade, Anne Low creates sculptural forms, often using techniques and methodologies associated with histories of decorative arts and domestic interiors.

Opening Reception: Friday, May 16th at 6:30pm. The artist will be in attendance.

Exhibition essay by Mitch Speed.

Image: Anne Low, Dream theatre Bed theatre, 2025, hand dyed and hand woven spun silk, hand woven filament silk, hand woven linen, screen print on hand dyed and hand woven wool, screen print on paper, screen print on cotton. Dimensions variable. Image courtesy the artist.

About the Exhibition

Anne Low creates sculptural forms, often using techniques and methodologies associated with histories of decorative arts and domestic interiors. Her practice includes sculpture, installation, textiles and printmaking to investigate how particular expressive forms are able to unhinge themselves from historical contingency and speak to contemporary subjects such as the domestic, the decorative, utility and taste.

Enfilade is an architectural term for rooms leading to rooms, connected with doors that unfold unto the next room and next room and on and on, etc. Low will respond to the architectural character of the Kenderdine Art Gallery as an object in and of itself. Utilizing a series of components, each work acts a sort of architectural fragment: a lintel, a door, a door frame, a canopy, and a sculpture called Weaver's tombstone.

Having trained as a hand weaver over the last decade, hand woven textile history informs much of her work, alongside other arcane material histories, from that of utilitarian objects to furniture making. Despite being grounded in highly specific techniques, her work seeks to understand how these ways of making can provide a ground or conduit to explore the less tangible aspects of subjectivity, desire and memory.

Anne Low, 'Dream theatre Bed theatre' (detail image), 2025, hand dyed and hand woven spun silk, hand woven filament silk, hand woven linen, screen print on hand dyed and hand woven wool, screen print on paper, screen print on cotton. Dimensions variable. Image courtesy the artist.

About the Artist

Anne Low (b. 1981 Stratford, Canada), lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Recent solo exhibitions include Bury me, Franz Kaka, Toronto (2023); Medlar, Unit 17 Vancouver (2021); Figure like hearse, SAAG, Lethbridge (2020); Chair for a woman, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2019), Paperstainer, Mercer Union, Toronto (2018); A wall as a table with candlestick legs, Tensta Konstall, Stockholm (2018) and Witch with Comb, Artspeak, Vancouver (2017). Recent group exhibitions include a twister rag in a scallop shell, Astor Weeks, New York (2024); Interior, Michael Werner Gallery, London (2022); La machine qui enseignait des airs aux oiseaux, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2020); Art Encounters Biennial, Timisoara (2019); Soon Enough – Art in Action, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm (2018); Separation Penetrates, Mercer Union, Toronto (2017); Dream Islands, Nanaimo Art Gallery (2017); Ambivalent Pleasures, Vancouver Art Gallery (2016) and Reading the Line, The Western Front, Vancouver (2015). Her collaboration with Evan Calder Williams, The Fine Line of Deviation, has been exhibited at the 49th Berlinale Forum Expanded, Berlin (2019); Mercer Union, Toronto (2018) and Issue Project Room, New York (2016). Low was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2019 and the Loewe Craft Prize in 2017.

Image courtesy the artist.

Programming and Events

  • Opening Reception: Friday, May 16th at 6:30pm in the Kenderdine Art Gallery. The artist will be in attendance. Free and open to the public.