A metal lattice glass sculpture stands on a concrete base in a gallery space, with a small brick-and-glass wall piece mounted nearby.
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School of Art

Through, and through

A new exhibition by faculty member Sarah Ciurysek exploring light, passage, and the thresholds we move through.

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School of Art Associate Professor Sarah Ciurysek presents Through, and through, a solo exhibition at PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts, featuring new stained glass, sculptural, and photographic works. Anchored by a large, light-responsive glass installation, the exhibition explores thresholds and transitions—what passes through, what holds, and what illuminates the spaces in between.

Moving between forest imagery, architectural forms, and hand-built glass structures, Ciurysek brings together materials that shift between transparency and opacity. Light functions not only as subject but as medium, activating each work as it filters, halts, or splinters across surfaces. Smaller sculptural elements act as ambiguous cues—part shelter, part barrier—offering metaphors of refuge, reverie, and the tangled routes we navigate through land and memory.

The exhibition is accompanied by a workshop in partnership with MAWA and an Active Research Lecture expanding on Ciurysek’s long-term SSHRC research into land, ecology, and decolonizing approaches to place and material.

Ciurysek’s work has been exhibited across Canada and internationally. She lives and works in Winnipeg, Treaty 1 Territory, where she teaches in the School of Art at the University of Manitoba.

Through, and through

Through, and through shown at PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts from September 12 to November 15, 2025
 

A large framed black-and-white photograph of dense, tangled branches hangs on a white gallery wall.
Exhibition documentation by Daisy Wu. Courtesy of the Gallery.
A large stained-glass panel stands at an angle in the gallery, casting green light projections onto the adjacent wall and floor.

Featured Press Coverage

Sarah Ciurysek’s exhibition also garnered attention from the Winnipeg Free Press, where arts reporter Ben Waldman explored the roots of her practice and her turn toward working with light through glass and photography. His review highlights the ecological and emotional depth of Through, and through.


Read the full article: Pulling focus Through, and through a green, green lens (Winnipeg Free Press, 2025).