Tunnel Mound Comeback

Elena Kirby, Masumi Rodriguez & Emi Takahashi

July 25 - August 17, 2025

Curated by Emerald Repard-Denniston

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday 4PM-7PM
Saturday/Sunday 2PM-5PM

Tunnel Mound Comeback showcases work that stems from “invasive” plant species. Each artist addresses a form of relationship towards the plant material they work with.

We place quotation marks on the word “invasive” as a way for us to leave room to think about how this word informs our relationship to these plants, and the parallel ways we use this word outside of a plant context.

Elena Kirby (Tkaronto), Masumi Rodriguez (Tiohtià:ke/Montréal) and Emi Takahashi (Tiohtià:ke/Montréal) create work surrounding the plant known as dog-strangling vine. In conversation with the show, artist Bhavika Sharma (Tkaronto) takes on the plumb bar using a weedy/migrant plant known as phragmites.

Text by Chloe Gordon-Chow

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Processing Sessions:

Anna Meng |  July 26th, 2-5pm
Stewardship Ecologist, Toronto Nature Stewards

Victoria Bao Wang | July 30th, 4-7pm
Community worker, researcher, writer

Bhavika Sharma | August 2nd, 2-5pm
Artist + Landscape Architectural Designer

Gabi Doiron | August 6th, 4-7pm
Political ecology researcher

Alex and Tasha Sawatzky | August 9th, 2-5pm
Co-Founders of Minnow Magazine

Christine Beaudoin |  August 13th, 4-7pm
Assistant professor (Urban environments) at Université de l’Ontario français