The Reading Room, 2021

In DIY Flood, the DIY aesthetic refers to how the individual, as consumer and sovereign of their domain, is called upon as both the cause and solution to climate change and the attendant increased risks of flooding around the world. The burden placed on the individual is however ineffective and unsustainable. As such, among the objects flooded in The Reading Room is a pile of books, classics of neoliberal and libertarian ideology and other books championing individualism over collective action. The water run off from the flooding of these books is redirected towards the trash bin. 

Materials: Repurposed household objects, beeswax, vinyl tubing, steel wire and hardware, cotton wire, aquarium pumps, leftover household paint. 

Installation views at the “Groundwater” exhibition (at Popop Gallery in Montreal, September 2021).