christina battle
heavy times/try to remember what it is you need, Hand poured palm wax unscented candles, custom matchbox, 14cm x 8cm x 6cm.Edition 2021. Courtesy of the Artist.
Christina Battle is an artist based in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta), within the Aspen Parkland: the transition zone where prairie and forest meet. Battle’s work focuses on thinking deeply about the concept of disaster: the complexity of disaster and the intricacies that are entwined within it. She looks to disaster as a series of intersecting processes including social, environmental, cultural, political, and economic, which are implicated not only in how disaster is caused but also in how it manifests, is responded to and overcome. Through this research, Battle looks closer to both the internet (especially social media) and plant systems for strategies to learn from, and for ways we might consider disaster anew.
About the Work
A translation of two videos from the ongoing series Notes to Self, this set of candles and matchbox offer an opportunity for individual engagement that reflects on the current moment while prompting for an active consideration of how we each might move through it.