Sensations of breathing at the sound of light

“Sensations of breathing at the sound of light” brings together photography, video, and sculpture to question our physical, emotive, and psychological relationships with time, space, light, and memory.

Natalie Hunter uses transparent photographs, light, and other light activated materials to create installations and sculptures that challenge the boundaries between mental and physical spaces, time and memory, material and immaterial, light and motion, presence and absence. Her multidisciplinary practice is concerned with the transformation of materials, objects, and images in ways that evoke an emotive or psychological response in the viewer. Her work engages with the passage of time, the ephemeral qualities of light, how it affects familiar spaces, the body, our perception of time, and what this does to memory and immediate experience. She often produces experiential installations using photographs on transparent film, light, and other fragile materials that engage with the poetics of time, memory, perception, and the senses.

Natalie Hunter is a Canadian Artist who grew up in Hamilton, Ontario. She holds an MFA from the University of Waterloo, and a Bachelor of Art in Visual Art from Brock University. She is the recipient of several awards including an Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists Creation Project Grant for Emerging Artists, and a Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant. She has shown her work in Canada and the United States in numerous exhibitions, including: the Hamilton Supercrawl (2014), the Art Gallery of Hamilton, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Thames Art Gallery, Rodman Hall Arts Centre, Mississauga Living Arts Centre, Hopkins Centre For the Arts at Dartmouth College, the Art Gallery of Windsor, Centre 3 for Print and Media Arts, Latcham Art Centre, and Museum London. More recently, she exhibited her work in a solo exhibition at Rodman Hall Arts Centre titled Staring into the sun.

Natalie Hunter wishes to acknowledge the generous support of both the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.