Kuh Del Rosario is based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, QC. Attuning with everyday materials, her practice is driven by a desire for grounding within the environment she takes part in.
She has been supported by The Peter Thompson Family Graduate Scholarship 2020, CALQ 2023, Canada Council for the Arts 2023, Fonderie Darling 2023-2026 sponsored by Romany Eveleigh Gift, and most recently, The Claudine & Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art 2024.
Del Rosario recently exhibited at SKOL (Catalogue Des Ruines, January 2024), Centre Clark (Summoning Black Beach, October 2023 & Maison Modèle, March 2024) and Maison de la Culture Monkland (Groundworks, November 2023). Upcoming group exhibitions at FOFA Gallery (Tidelines, May 2024), The Art Gallery of Grande Prairie (Worried Earth, Aug 2024), Fonderie Darling (Déliquescence, plaisirs du chaos, September 2024) and a solo show at B-312 (TBA, February 2025).
Kuh del Rosario’s sculptures comprise microcosms, minute ecosystems which gather in kitchen compost, consumer plastics, and dried botanicals. Dense, mossy carpets of coffee, paper, and plant matter envelop rigid forms and extrude from containers, referencing the plant-based origins of manufactured industrial materials. Empty containers, boxes, and plastic vessels, markers of global production and shipping, are subsumed into the slow creeping time of organic decomposition.
Working from discards, leftovers, and unpredictable elements, these works invite slow contemplation and close attention. What can be learned by simply witnessing the way things transform over time? The evident life spans of the works invoke cycles of growth and decay in both form and process, and speculate into the future lives of materials in the human waste stream, where things break down but never go away.
CECILIA MCKINNON, 2023