re(patterning) emerges from a place of re-imagining and unmaking through close looking and repetition in
material practices. Val Loewen and Amanda Wood use this ongoing collaborative exploration to obscure
and reveal experiences of otherness that can develop when self identifying within a normative culture.
Considering the power of an illegible text, the work is intuitive, working to consider new ways of unknowing
that makes space for divergence.
Repeated actions – breaking, revealing, glitching, and rearranging – are at the core of an attempt to
uncover an imagined sensory language that moves beyond the visual to navigate experiences words fail to
describe. Representational images and mundane objects are abstracted into sound, texture, and pattern
that engage with concepts of coded language and imagined narratives.
re(patterning) is a continual process of unlearning perceptions of value and reframing connections to social
and cultural environments.

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A link to a 15 minute interview with the CBC's North By Northwest on (re)patterning: Amanda Wood and Val Loewen on (re)patterning at THIS gallery