In Place of You - First Iteration
In Place of You - First Iteration

Installation

In Place of You - First Iteration

In her installation "In Place of You", Canadian artist Abby Kettner attempts to temper the chaotic, unreliable, and intangible nature of memory by charting her evocative memories, cast into latex squares, onto a fading blue chalk-line grid... More

In Place of You - Second Iteration
In Place of You - Second Iteration

Installation

In Place of You - Second Iteration

As "In Place of You" looks to locate where the objects and memories are situated in time and space, the work takes on new meaning and form with every installation. Inspired by research from various artists and writers, including but not limited to... More

Shadows of Their Sums
Shadows of Their Sums

Photography

Shadows of Their Sums

Applying Timothy Morton’s "Subscendence" as a framework, this piece investigates how intangible memories and physical objects become part of a person’s ‘sum’ or ‘whole’. I chose objects that I felt were irrevocably tied to a person in my life, and... More

Yet Unfamiliar
Yet Unfamiliar

Photography

Yet Unfamiliar

Using Sherry Turkle's work, "Evocative Objects: Things We Think With", I have been exploring the objects in my life that exhibit an uncanny quality by being pre-evocative. These pre-evocative objects are things that at this moment in time do not... More

Work by

Abby Kettner

Life Studies, Sculpture and Installation

“Canadian artist Abby Kettner attempts to temper the chaotic, unreliable, and intangible nature of memory by charting her evocative objects and their relationships to the self. ”