Art exhibit forces viewers to consider relationship with waste
A unique exhibit at the McMaster Museum of Art should make you stop and think about our relationship with junk.
Ian Johnston’s “The Chamber” is an inflating and deflating piece that shrouds, then reveals, an enormous mass of household items diverted from the waste stream in Medicine Hat, Alberta.
As the bag inflates, lights lower and the sound of flowing water can be heard. As the bag deflates and the pile of waste is revealed, the sound is replaced by that of crackling fire.
The whole process takes seven minutes.
The Chamber is on display at the McMaster Museum of Art until October 25.
