PARTICLE+WAVE 2026: Memory + Nostalgia
Get ticketsCurated by Mackenzie Bedford, Memory+Nostalgia opens at EMMEDIA
Mackenzie Bedford brings together the projection mapping work of gender-diverse artists who explore memory as something fragile, layered, and constantly in motion.
Reminiscence by Jacqueline Huskisson (BFA '11, Print Media)
What do comics do with, and to, memory—and what does memory do to comics?
The installation investigates the role of comics in memory culture and their ability to simulate or transmit memory.
The work consists of three white semi-sheer curtains functioning as comic panels. Using projection mapping, animation, and video, the imagery interacts with a non-opaque surface, refusing stability or containment. The projections fragment, overlap, and drift, mirroring the instability of memory itself.
Memory is fleeting, particularly when tied to grief and loss. The curtains flutter with movement, allowing only partial images to persist. Like memory, moments briefly burn into the mind before dissolving.
Reminiscence explores how narrative can emerge through abstraction and motion rather than linear sequence, asking what kind of memory-based narrative can exist when both image and surface resist permanence.
About Jacqueline Huskisson
Jacqueline Huskisson is a visual artist from Calgary, Alberta, currently living and working between Calgary and Toronto. She holds a BFA in Print Media from the Alberta College of Art and Design (now AUArts) and an MFA in Studio Art from the Belfast School of Art in Northern Ireland.
Working across printmaking, painting, comics, and media arts, Huskisson identifies primarily as a comic artist. Her practice is rooted in narrative—both abstract and linear—exploring the human body, illness, and the relationship between the human form and its surrounding environments. Drawing from illustration, sequential imagery, and spatial installation, her work creates immersive narrative experiences that blur the boundaries between image, space, and story.
She will be attending Sheridan College’s Advanced Special Effects program, expanding her media arts practice through technical experimentation and material-based storytelling.
Out of Reach by Nicole Santangelo (BFA '23, Media Arts)
In this work, I channel my emotions into an act of prayer and remembrance, focusing on a departed relative. At the center of the installation, an altar dedicated to my grandfather serves as a physical manifestation of my devotion and sacred space for spiritual communion. Adjacent to the altar, a large wall acts as a canvas for the projection, becoming a portal where the intangible essence of myself is made visible.
Like spirits, projections exist in a liminal space between the tangible and intangible. They possess an ephemeral quality, flickering between reality and illusion. embodying the intangible nature of memories and emotions. Through the act of projecting a video of myself onto the wall, I strive to bridge the gap between the physical and the spiritual, inviting the viewer to contemplate the inherent interconnectedness of our world.
About Nicole Santangelo
I am an interdisciplinary artist who currently resides in Mohkinstsis (Calgary). I find fascination in the fleeting nature of digital media, drawing parallels between its ephemerality with ghosts, memories, and the human experience. Through different art forms, my works explore the complex nature of the self in a world that is constantly changing due to globalized capitalism and distant spiritualism.
