Opening May 1 2026, 7pm – 9pm
Show Runs Saturday/Sundays : May 2-17, 2026
In Open Planes, Heather Kai Smith examines the imagery of touch and interpersonal exchange. Working through drawing, painting and installation, Smith explores how bodies meet and negotiate one another across surfaces. Contact between subjects, and the ambiguity of their connectedness becomes both method and subject for the imagery: through weight, density and restraint.
Drawing from movement practices, self-defence training, rehabilitation exercises, and forms of energy medicine, Smith considers how depictions of sensation can pose questions to the viewer. Archival imagery of collectivity and group ritual informs the work, activated through repetition and iteration to emphasize the dynamics between bodies rather than the individual figure.
Rather than presenting the body as fixed, Open Planes proposes it as relational: shaped by proximity and defined through exchange.
Website: https://heatherkaismith.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/heatherkaismith/
For more information about this exhibition, please visit the detailed artist page here.
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