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kupferschmidt / kupferschmid / kupferschmidte

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2024-04-29

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Smith, Jill

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University of Waterloo

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kupferschmidt / kupferschmid / kupferschmidte is a sculpture and installation-based thesis exhibition which uses materiality and autobiography to question the role of preservation in my life, as a Jewish woman. In this body of work, I have focused on materials related to my cultural lineage (such as copper, jewellery, and pickles), as well as those associated with preservation (including paraffin wax and glass jars). I use these to develop metaphors that demonstrate the tension I feel between the responsibility to hold on to the past and the natural desire to grow. Likewise, metaphorical containers delineate the work: tethered, suspension, and potential. These containers also serve as signifiers of time, grounding the work in a cyclical relationship through past, present, and future.

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fine art, arts, studio art, sculpture, installation, materiality, Judaism, memory, lineage, preservation, in-between, ancestry, fragmentation, containment, growth, change, autobiography, assemblage, spirituality

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http://hdl.handle.net/10012/20511

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