Please join us for a guided exhibition tour of a sliver is a seed with Boring Earth, a collaboration between artists Patrick Cruz and Laila Fox. The artist talk and tour will give a unique insight into inspirations behind the exhibition with a chance to ask questions and generate discussion. Introduction by Or Gallery Interim Director Autumn Coppaway.

This public program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition a sliver is a seed, on view at Or Gallery from May 21 to August 9, 2026.

For a sliver is a seed, Boring Earth refigures the pipeline as a portal between possible socio-ecologies: those shaped by extractivism and uneven consumption, and those grounded in collective, spiritual, and more-than-human practices of life-making. The exhibition brings together material compositions emerging from a yearlong reciprocal exchange between the territories of the Tagbanua Tandulanen peoples—colonially known as El Nido; the territories of Mazina’iga-ziibing Misi-zaagiwininiwag (Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation), the Chippewa, and other ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒃ (Anishinaabeg) peoples, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples—colonially known as Toronto; and the territories of the xʷməθkʷəyəm, Sḵwxw̱ú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ nations—colonially known as Vancouver.