Rising Tide 2023 Opening Reception @ City Hall Art Gallery

A few nights ago, I attended the opening reception for Rising Tide: 2023 Additions to the City of Ottawa Art Collection at City Hall Gallery.
Featuring 45 artists who use their artistic practices to explore themes related to a wide variety of societal challenges such as the climate emergency, numerous plights of equity and justice, housing security and the cost-of-living crisis, while offering diverse perspectives on identity and memory.
Rising Tide 2023 Opening Reception @ City Hall Art Gallery
The exhibition title, Rising Tide, suggests a collective sense of imminent change and growing tensions around things that may seem out of our control. The artists in this exhibition invite us to explore our relationship to time and personal history in the context of knowing and discovering ourselves and others – to reflect on our shared experiences, and our responses to the transformative properties of community and connection.
Rising Tide 2023 Opening Reception @ City Hall Art Gallery
The exhibition runs until February 11, 2024.
Check out the gallery.