shell sounding long

Boring Earth

November 15 - December 21, 2024

shell sounding long , 2024
installation view

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Paul Petro Contemporary Art is pleased to present shell sounding long, the first solo exhibition of work by Boring Earth, a collaboration between Toronto-based artists Patrick Cruz and Laila Fox.

shell sounding long spells the reconfiguration, resilience, and unfurling potentials of urban ecological relations through the language of portals, sensing, and non-human placekeeping. Using a combination of foraged and fabricated domestic materials, their works limn thresholds of intimacy between what is seen and perceived, conjuring anito and fairy ontologies to jamb between the "One-World World" of modernity and other real/possible worldings.* Continuing upon their low-residency at Moire's Catwalk, shell sounding long plays with squinting, offering, and portal building as sowing modalities of dwelling across ungraspable but collaborative realms. (*Escobar, Arturo. "Pluriversal Politics : The Real and the Possible". Duke University Press, 2020)

Boring Earth is an earth-based collective concerned with building more-than-human mutualisms and relations among living environments. It is a collaboration between Patrick Cruz and Laila Fox, and a slippery roster of rocky, watery, animal, vegetal, and bacterial bodies.