Installed in an abandoned parking lot, is a shimmering, turquoise kidney-shaped pool in the engineering specs of a mining tailings pond. it is at the same time a crudely built swimming pool and a delicately built tailings pond. Intended as a pointedly ironic object, we are invited to think about human overindulgence and its environmental impacts.
Tailings Pool explores the crucial importance of water, how it is impacted by industrial activity and how it connects us all.
Tailings Pool was commissioned by plugin Gallery for Stages 2021, 87 Higgens Street, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Tailings Pool II was installed at Nuit Blanche 2022 in Toronto, ON, Canada. Stages 2021 documentation by Karen Asher.