Summer 2025 Exhibitions at Cambridge Art Galleries

Sofia Eleni Escobar, Mirrored (detail), cotton thread and plexiglass, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist.

Sofia Eleni Escobar: Cast Shadow

July 14, 2025 – July 11, 2026
Cambridge Public Library, Hespeler
Curated by Ashlyn Gregory

Situated at the intersection of art and mathematics, Sofia Eleni Escobar’s innovative installation Cast Shadow reflects the rich heritage of textile production in the village of Hespeler. Expanding upon traditional methods of textile manufacturing, the artist creates three-dimensional woven sculptures that challenge the conventions of form and space. Escobar’s upbringing in Peru and Ecuador also informs her practice as she strives to examine and reproduce the distinct patterns and colours evident in Andean textiles.

Her sculptures interact with the natural light by producing shadows that undulate and twist like an optical illusion. Using colour, shape, and negative space to create meaning, Escobar’s sculptures and pen and ink illustrations invite viewers to reconsider their perception of textiles and their relationship with space. However, the intricate linework remains open to interpretation and there is no overarching narrative of what one should “see” within the work. Instead, Escobar employs complex algorithms to lay out abstract grid patterns that constitute a visual language and create a dizzying effect that engages the viewer’s attention.

Natalie Hunter, Crystal Garden, Mirrored Iris 02 (detail), archival pigment prints on transparent film from 120mm negatives, turned aluminum, light, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist.

Natalie Hunter: You might as well try and hold the sun

August 29, 2025 – August 29, 2026
Cambridge Public Library, Queen’s Square
Curated by Karly Boileau

Cambridge Art Galleries is excited to present You might as well try and hold the sun, a new site-specific installation in the Queen’s Square lobby by Hamilton-based artist, Natalie Hunter. Working across photography, installation, sculpture, and the moving image, Hunter is mostly known for her multilayered and experiential photo-based installations on transparent film. Her intricately layered installations study the complexities of time, space, memory, and the senses in our digitally saturated culture through an interplay between image, material, and form.

Meera Margaret Singh, Birds of a Feather, digital c-print, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist.

Meera Margaret Singh: What We Hold

Until September 14, 2025
Cambridge Art Galleries, Queen’s Square
Curated by Karly Boileau in collaboration with Noa Bronstein

The archive of a life is abundant. In the touring exhibition What We Hold, a series of photographic and sculptural still lifes by Meera Margaret Singh trace familial histories and memories through objects—some joyful, others haunted. Books, shells, vases, trinkets, rocks and plants narrate the time spent and the stories shared among family. These are stories of loss, migration, marriage, rupture, illness, recovery, healing and love.

Co-presented in partnership with Gallery TPW, supported and circulated by the Ontario Arts Council.

In Conversation: Meera Margaret Singh, Noa Bronstein, and Karly Boileau
Thursday, August 7, 6:30 – 7:30pm
Free, registration required

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Monday to Thursday 9:30am to 8:30pm
Friday and Saturday 9:30am to 5:30pm
Closed Sundays May 18 – August 31, 2025

Cambridge Public Library, Hespeler
5 Tannery St. East
Cambridge, ON N3C 2C1

Hours of Operation
Monday to Thursday 10:00am – 8:30pm
Friday 10:00am – 5:30pm
Saturday 9:30am – 5:30pm
Closed Sundays May 18 – August 31, 2025

Admission is free. All are welcome.

Cambridge Art Galleries is situated on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Neutral peoples. We recognize that this land is part of the Haldimand Tract, extending 10km on either side of the Grand River.

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