Laura Kay Keeling: Untitled Portals, Variations
CAFKA.25 Biennial @ Cambridge Centre for the Arts & online
Laura Kay Keeling
Untitled Portals, Variations
Untitled Portal 10 & Untitled Portal 11, 2025
Laura Kay Keeling
Untitled Portals, Variations
June 7 - July 26, 2025
As part of CAFKA.25: Field Guide to the Understory
Cambridge Centre for the Arts, Cambridge ON
& online
Untitled Portals, Variations presents a series of collages, an installation piece, and a virtual space by Laura Kay Keeling as part of CAFKA.25 Field Guide to the Understory. Through a process-centered approach, the artist experimented with and merged analog and digital processes to expand on an earlier series, Untitled Portals.
These pieces include natural elements that have been photographed both digitally and on 35mm film, scanned with a flatbed and 3D scanner, digitally manipulated, and then brought into physical form. Continuing a dialogue between the natural and digital world, the work explores connections to where we find ourselves, the incredible and important ecosystems that surround us, and the joys that can come from everyday moments of being in and engaging with our surroundings through reciprocal care and respect.
How can we maintain and evolve connections to the natural world in an increasingly isolating and technology-dependent society?
Can virtual spaces be used to encourage folks to take pause and explore, and can moments of joy and excitement be replicated in these virtual environments?
Learn more about Untitled Portals, Variations, explore the virtual space on your device, or view a recorded tour with audio descriptions here.
Laura Kay Keeling (she/her/they) is a self-taught visual artist based in Hamilton, ON. Her practice is rooted in a process-centered approach that integrates analog photography, video, digital collage, installation, and public artwork. As a process-based artist with archival investigations, her artwork questions how we form connections with the natural world and how we capture and cherish memories and moments in time. She explores the reciprocity of care amongst natural narratives and how one might engage and interact with humans, plants, animals, and nature in the context of care-based relations.
Alongside her studio practice, Laura is an active arts administrator.
For more information about the artist:
Instagram: @laurakaykeeling
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About CAFKA
CAFKA – Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener + Area takes art outside of the gallery and presents it in public places to foster community connections, record our stories, and enjoy the common spaces we all share. Artworks featured in CAFKA.25: Field Guide to the Understory can be found across Waterloo Region from June 7 - July 26, 2025.
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