This exhibition brings together the work of longtime friends Brittney Appleby and MV Williams. The artists’ practices inform one another and build upon each other’s growth. The mediums and processes they work in are time-based and are often done alone, like with the development of film in a darkroom or with the temporal and slow process of cyanotype photography, where one is subject to the intensity and longevity of the sun’s rays.

Appleby’s and Williams’ work grows from the unexpected and everchanging nature of their mediums. The allusion of control over these experimental processes relates to the subject matter of their work: Appleby often refers to experiences with chronic illness and disability and Williams reflects on memory and the relationship to place and home.

Appleby, in particular, often incorporates their background in painting, printmaking, and drawing into their film and photographic works. Williams leans into process-based methods of making, experimenting with fibre works, image transfers, and collage. As part of the exhibition, there will be a large-scale window installation looking out to the Arts Centre courtyard of the artists’ collaged photographic negatives and analogue film cells.