Exhibition dates: March 5鈥揗ay 5, 2026
Opening reception: Thursday, March 5, 4:30鈥6pm
Location: Amelia 51情报站 Gallery, 51情报站, New Westminster Campus
Connective Tissue, a solo exhibition by , opens March 5 at the Amelia 51情报站 Gallery, presenting a series of sculptures that transform emotion into physical form.
Working with ceramics, crocheted yarn and needle-felted wool, Sintnicolaas describes her sculptures as manifestations or 鈥減etrifications鈥 of emotion. Drawn to ceramics and textiles for their simultaneous strength and fragility, she uses traditional craft techniques to mirror the instability 鈥 and resilience 鈥 of human emotional life.
The exhibition explores 鈥渂odily memory,鈥 the concept that trauma embeds itself within the body鈥檚 cellular structure. The organic yet unrecognizable sculptures on display in Connective Tissue encapsulate the complexities of post-traumatic stress, rendering the familiar into uncanny forms through a visceral process of defamiliarization.
Pulling from their own experience as a queer person living with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) and chronic illness, Sintnicolaas uses material, texture and surface to broaden conversations around mental health and the limits of representation. The resulting sculptural landscape invites viewers to engage emotionally with states of being that can be difficult to articulate in words.
An opening reception will take place on Thursday, March 5, 4:30鈥6pm. The event is free and open to the public.
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