Anne Dahl and Elizabeth Johnson To Touch It Is To Know It

‘To Touch It Is To Know It’ is a collaborative body of work by multidisciplinary artists Elizabeth Johnson and Anne Dahl. This duo show expands upon the material translations of our hyper-paced virtual world, marked by the slow testament of their respective weaving and metalsmithing processes. A hybrid body of collaborative sculpture and independent works, they translate their own tensions and questions surrounding the rapid growth of AI and technology, including its role in capitalism, colonialism and militaristic warfare. Anne’s metal sculptures explore grounding and critical reflection in relation to these technological overstimulations, while Elizabeth's weavings include self-referential moments to the tools they're created with, magnifying the similarities and history between the worlds of weaving and computing. Their differing material starting points converge with their nuanced desires to simultaneously understand, employ and reject technology.

Elizabeth Johnson is a multidisciplinary artist living in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) and working within the realm of textiles, sculpture and sound. She has a BFA in Intermedia from Nova Scotia College of Art & Design and is a recent MFA graduate at Concordia University in Fibres & Material Practices. Her work has been exhibited in Berlin, New York, Halifax, Montréal, Gatineau and Glasgow. With the slowness of the weaving process, she aims to create moments of contemplation in opposition to the digital saturation of her source material.
https://screenweaver.art/

Anne Dahl is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on metal sculpture and wearable objects. She studied Jewellery Design & Metalsmithing, and Intermedia at NSCAD University and is currently in the MFA Sculpture program at Concordia University. She centers themes of presence, movement, technology and physical agencies inspiring the collaboration between body and object from her perspective and history as a jeweller. She is currently based in Tiohtià:ke/ Montreal. She has exhibited her work in New York, Montréal, Ottawa, and Toronto. Her jewellery has been seen in Elle Canada, FASHION Magazine, Clin d’oeil, and Ottawa Magazine.
https://www.annedahlconcepts.com/