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2025

Assembly

Venue
Steelcase Art Projects
Dates
May 24 – November 16, 2025
Artists
Coryn Kempster, Julia Jamrozik
Source
Installation view, Steelcase Art Projects, 2025
Curatorial note

Assembly offers a radically accessible, circular space for gathering, drawing inspiration from global models of parliamentary seating.

In a moment marked by political uncertainty both at home and abroad, the work imagines a space of inclusive participation, openness, and democratic possibility—without hierarchy, without barriers.

Responding to the context of the industrial park around it, Assembly is constructed entirely from familiar, off-the-shelf materials—rolling warehouse ladders and metal shop welding curtains—that will be reused after the sculpture’s six-month run. This ecological approach ensures a zero-waste installation that is as pragmatic as it is poetic.

Photography by Darren Rigo.

Documentation
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Programming
About the artists

Coryn Kempster is a Toronto-based designer, architect, and educator. He holds a BA(Hons) from the University of Toronto and MArch from MIT (Visual Arts concentration), and previously practiced at Herzog & de Meuron and Harry Gugger Studio in Basel. Together with Julia Jamrozik, he is co-author of Growing up Modern: Childhoods in Iconic Homes (Birkhäuser, 2021) and a recipient of the 2018 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers.

Julia Jamrozik is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architectural Science at Toronto Metropolitan University. She holds a BA(Hons) from the University of Toronto and MArch from the University of British Columbia, and previously worked at Herzog & de Meuron. Together with Coryn Kempster, she is co-author of Growing up Modern: Childhoods in Iconic Homes (Birkhäuser, 2021) and a recipient of the 2018 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers.