Proximities navigates the spaces that exist between everyday connection and disconnection. Through bodily mark making, repetition and obscuration, Rain Cabana-Boucher creates forms that seem to emerge through static. The drawings in this series were created alongside one another before being split apart. Through this exhibition, Cabana-Boucher explores the space between our relationships, questioning how we experience isolation while still being fundamentally connected to one another. Like these drawings, we can exist apart, yet we cannot exist entirely without each other. Cabana-Boucher’s work also gestures toward the liminal spaces of urban commons, such as libraries, that function both as places of gathering and of individual solitude. Proximities reflects on how we interact with these feelings of in-betweenness. What brings us together? As people gather both together and apart, the exhibition seeks to define the often quiet, contemplative space between—one that surrounds us in our daily lives yet often goes unnoticed.
