Chris Leithead

Latex Tarps: Christie

Two 8’x10’ rubber latex tarps installed on an access ramp in Christie Pits, Toronto.

“This work is part of Latex Tarps: an ongoing process-based series, where I create large tarpaulins made of rubber latex and metal grommets and then stage interventions of site and object using them. This installation, Latex Tarps: Christie, sees two 8’ x 10’ tarps wrapped around the handrails of an access ramp in Christie Pits park, Toronto. The tarps impose a change in directionality as well access to touch, space, and mobility on the structure. Latex Tarps Series:The use of the tarpaulin as a basis of form comes from their prevalence in my surroundings and across Toronto. Here, demand is high for provisional barriers and border objects to separate unassembled material and exposed sites of reconstruction from view.Likewise, this exploration of border objects comes into practice at the time of bodily and spatial border objects in which we find ourselves in during the CoVID-19 Pandemic.”