Artist Spotlight on Shelley Niro

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This artist's spotlight is on the filmmaker and visual artist Shelley Niro's exhibit called "Something Cold and Hard like Winter," exhibited in 2020 at the Robert Langen Art Gallery at the Wilfred Laurier University in Kitchener, Ontario. This spotlight includes artwork from the exhibit and an artist statement about the series. Recently these images were being exhibited at the MoMA PS1, Long Island City. You can find Shelley's recent interview with the magazine here.

Select images from the series "Resting Places of Our Ancestors" featured in the exhibit "Something Cold and Hard like Winter" are presented in the spotlight.

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Artist Statement:

I've spent many hours looking at different species embedded into rock faces. I'm not a paleontologist, but I am curious about the life that existed before and during the era of the big bang. I've become attached to the narrative of these small creatures as they went about their daily tranquil lives, and suddenly they are now the centerfolds for explaining my own existence as I slither along the edges of this century. These imprints of long-gone life unite us all as evidence of where we come from.

 For more information about Shelley's artwork, please visit her site.