Kate MacDonald + Les Sears 

K8L35 is the collaborative practice of Vancouver artists Kate MacDonald and Les Sears, who have shared a studio and created together since 2013.

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Working across sculpture, assemblage, photography, digital media, installation and surface design, K8L35 transforms familiar objects, materials and cultural symbols through humour, material deception and unexpected shifts in context. Their work is fascinated by consumerism, immoderation, excess and the strange power objects acquire through use, display and desire.

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Collaboration is central to the practice. MacDonald and Sears bring distinct approaches and visual languages to the work, with ideas developing through an ongoing process of negotiation, experimentation and play. The resulting works often occupy an uneasy space between the familiar and the absurd—inviting viewers to look twice, reconsider an object’s value or purpose and, occasionally, to touch it.

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KateMacDonald.com | LesSears.com | @K8L35

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