Isaac King: Inbetweening Beings

Isaac King, Inbetweening Beings, (video still), 2023

Isaac King: Inbetweening Beings

February 12 – March 11, 2026
assemblage, Toronto

Isaac King is an animator who combines sculpture, projection and installation to engage with complex issues of the Anthropocene. King makes work that resides on and off the screen, inviting viewers to contemplate their own awareness and participation in the current climate crisis.

King positions humans as members of a multi-species ecology. This approach underscores our entwined relationship with the environment and the other species that share our planet. It is a “more-than-human”¹ worldview that imagines liveliness, ethics, responsibility and relationality in opposition to narratives of domination, extraction and singularity.

Isaac King, Inbetweening Beings, (conceptual and narrative map), 2023

King writes: “Inbetweening Beings uses the increments of animation to examine ecology in the Anthropocene. This is an ongoing project involving filmmaking, installation, and sculpture. Experiments with outdoor animation, projections, and the materiality of landscape depict various living systems, asking where and how humans fit in. We are invited and implicated, disrupting and dependent on other life. Focusing on urban and human-disturbed landscapes, the project presents a distinctly anthropogenic “nature” – jumbled, entangled, polluted, and resilient.”

Isaac King, Inbetweening Beings, (video still), 2023

For more information:
Website: isaacking.net
Instagram: @isaaaacking

assemblage

assemblage is a public-facing storefront space dedicated to the exhibition of emerging and established artists. assemblage embraces “liveliness”: our research and activities consider questions such as: how are we interconnected with our environment, communities, and non-human ecosystems? Knowledge sharing and dissemination take the form of workshops, exhibitions, publications, and seminars. Our goal is to remain fluid as we embrace complex issues, acknowledge entanglements, and foster inter- and cross-disciplinary practices.

assemblage
2015 Dundas Street West
Toronto, ON M6R 1W7
assemblage-gallery.com

Accessibility:
assemblage is accessible. As a storefront gallery, works are viewed from the street.

assemblage acknowledges the ancestral territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinaabeg and the Huron-Wendat, who are the original owners and custodians of this land. We also acknowledge the Métis, Inuit, and Indigenous urban communities who share these lands.

1. “More-Than-Human” is the title of a collection of texts published between 1990 and 2020 that critique dominant narratives that place humans at the apex of our ecosystems. Editors: Andrés Jaque, Marina Otero Verzier, Lucia Pietroiusti.