Partners in Art is proud to support Jenine Marsh’s solo exhibition, HARBINGER, presented by Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery.
Marsh’s HARBINGER is a site-specific, immersive installation that centers on the alteration of the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery’s existing gallery floor. Colliding modes of excavation and construction, her work examines histories of sacrifice and utopic hope which emerge from the near-universal ritual of throwing coins into fountains and wells to make a wish. The installation confronts coin-wishing as a subtle yet illicit expression of post-capitalist desire, explored through a tactile and temporal alteration of public space.
Jenine Marsh (b. 1984 Calgary, Canada; lives in Toronto, Canada) uses sculpture and installation to explore themes of agency, mortality and value. Through serialized processes of destruction and transformation, her work cultivates illicit and intimate responses to the shared conditions of end-stage capitalism. Several recent large-scale projects have focused on the form of public fountains, approaching them materially and conceptually as sites of social gathering, rallying, and wish-making. The universal practice of throwing coins into fountains enacts an alternative economy, which, through the wish, reaches for divergent futures. In these provisional floorworks, the iconoclastic materiality of post-capitalist desire is animated through the subtly utopic agencies of sculptural practice.
Marsh’s work has been exhibited widely in galleries and institutions such as the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art (2025); the Goldfarb Art Gallery, Toronto (2025); Ensemble, New York (2024); Prairie, Chicago (2024); Ashley, Berlin (2024); the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (2024); Gianni Manhattan, Vienna (2023); Union Pacific, London (2023); Cooper Cole, Toronto (2023); Joe Project, Montreal (2023); Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); Essex Flowers, New York (2020); Franz Kaka, Toronto (2019); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019), OSL Contemporary, Oslo (2019); Entrée Gallery, Bergen (2018), and Lulu, Mexico City (2015).
Photos by LF Documentation courtesy of KWAG and the Artist.
