Tunnel Mound Comeback
The plumb gallery, Toronto
July/August 2025

Artists: Elena Kirby, Masumi Rodriguez, Emi Takahashi, Bhavika Sharma
Curator: Emerald 邹佑
Writer: Chloe Gordon Chow
Documentation: Em Moor, Elena Kirby, Masumi Rodriguez, Jamie Latimer

Tunnel Mound Comeback presented works made with “invasive” plant species by Elena Kirby (Toronto), Masumi Rodriguez (Montréal), with invited artists Emi Takahashi (Montréal) and Bhavika Sharma (Toronto), curated by Emerald 邹佑 (Toronto). The exhibition invited the audience to contemplate our relationship with “invasive” plants as urban dwellers, placing quotation marks on the word “invasive” to leave room to think about how this word informs our relationship to these plants, and the ways we use it outside of a plant context. For the duration of the exhibition, we programmed a bi-weekly processing session to invite the audience to process the plant material while sharing a room with the artists and invited speakers.

We acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council.