“the waves broke on the shore”

“the waves broke on the shore” is a line borrowed from Virginia Woolf’s novel, The Waves, (1931) and the last sentence of that work

greabeiel’s site-specific installation in Gibson’s (territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw people) at the Kube Gallery invites the viewer to consider what value might be held in the physicality of a found object and simultaneously within impermanence, and negative space/emptiness

the installation’s chosen materiality considers Gibson’s history as the first site in so called British Columbia to begin accepting styrofoam at it’s recycling depot and the Átl'ka7tsem (Howe Sound) designation as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, recognizing its efforts towards recovery from industrial pollution and to encourage sustainable development (a key contaminate was the Britannia Copper mine, which closed in 1974)

“she carries in gifts from the sea & lays them on the shore for me”

- richelle greabeiel