Absence Inhabited was curated as an online exhibition as part of an emerging curatorial fellowship program offered by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Ash Slemming was awarded the curatorial fellowship in 2018.

- 2018 -
Absence Inhabited
AFA Collection : Virtual Exhibition

“…because the primary function of furniture and objects here is to personify human relationships, to fill the space that they share between them, and to be inhabited by a soul.” ― Jean Baudrillard

Domestic objects are saturated with cultural meaning—whispering stories about our everyday rituals, our wants and desires, our relationships, as well as our shortcomings as human beings. This exhibition aims to invite curiosity into the ways we inhabit our homes by contemplating the objects that surround us.

The exhibition is hosted in perpetuity on Google Arts and Culture, in three digital slideshow parts that can be found here.

A virtual exhibition catalogue designed, edited, and produced by Ash Slemming can be downloaded here.

All artworks included are courtesy of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts permanent collection.