# @centre3_ on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CjYGZZpvHvB
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/5220856-centre3-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-10-06T15:09:44.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Centre[3] (@centre3_) — https://gondola.cc/centre3_

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【 #Centre3ExhibitionHighlight 】🍄 Follow along Maria Simmons @littlemadderroot as she guides us through her latest exhibition titled “Growth Units” at Centre[3]’s Members’ Gallery (Sep 2 to Sep 30, 2022). Below is an excerpt when Maria describes the process of her piece “Excavation Growth Units”:

“It consists of these two platforms that are wrapped in vinyl. In the platforms are mixtures of limestone, soil, silicone, mushrooms, and sphagnum moss. Different things are also changing. The brick that’s contained in one of the platforms is efflorescing, meaning that different components on the inside of the brick are leaching onto the outside throughout the exhibition. This will also shift due to humidity changes.”

Maria Simmons (she/they) is a hybrid artist who investigates potentialized environments through the creation of hybrid sculpture and installation. Her work embraces contamination as an act of collaboration. She collects garbage, grows mushrooms, ferments plants, and nurtures fruit flies. She makes art that eats itself. She holds an MFA from the University of Waterloo and a BFA from McMaster University. She has recently exhibited with Trinity Square Video, Xpace, The Plumb, Ed Video Media Art Centre, and the Hamilton Artist Inc. She has completed residencies at Mustarinda, Finland, BioArt Society, Finland, Silent Barn in NYC, NY, and Factory Media Centre in Hamilton, ON. 

🔗 Click the link in our bio to our YouTube channel where you can watch all the past #Centre3ExhbiitionHighlight episodes. Follow @littlemadderroot and @centre3

🎥 Video shot and Edited by Arturo Jimenez @arttheboy.wav

Series generously supported by @ontrillium 
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