Impacts and Remains – Kiara Pike
Impacts and Remains – Kiara Pike
Impacts and Remains describe interactions between urban infrastructure and the pigeons that inhabit the University of Lethbridge. Through a temporal and process-driven practice, I attempt to trace the discrete echoes of the birds, echoes left behind by their interactions with the building, memorializing window strikes and wayward corpses. Creating subtle imagery describing the bird’s collisions, the Impact Prints embody the mundane and overlooked presence of the bird’s almost angelic impact with windows, where the embossment reflects the event’s force and the uniformity of the paper assumes the quality of the windows. In an act of commemoration, pigeon corpse, and wind resurrector: a patio trapped corpse describes my interactions with the discarded and strewn about pigeon wings decorating the university’s property in the spring of 2025. wind resurrector speaks towards my exact interactions with a pair of wings that, as if reinvigorated by the wind, periodically shifted its position across a patio on campus. Confrontational and contemplative, Remains and Impacts reflect on a broader human interaction with birds, and how urban design impacts the non-human.
To be unconventional; to work through embodied practice; to labour; to love; to wander; to notice. Kiara Pike is an interdisciplinary, process-driven artist who explores relationships with the avian lives, memory, and the mundane. Their studio practice involves experimentation, printmaking, sculpture, and painting, responding to and questioning her surroundings. As a fourth-year Bachelor of Fine Arts student, she has been awarded Excellence in Printmaking, Excellence in Art Studio, and the Gushul Artist Residency Award. Pike resides in Treaty 7 territory and has shown artwork locally in group exhibitions as well as at the Casa Art Gallery in Lethbridge, Alberta.
Date:January 24th, 2026 - March 13th, 2026
Location:Casa - Platform
Casa Program Guide
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