MEMORY+NOSTALGIA at PARTICLE+WAVE 2026 featuring Bioluminescent Magic by Jacqueline HuskissonOpening Reception on Friday, March 27th at 6PMGallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 12PM to 6PMFree Admission Curated by Mackenzie Bedford, Memory+Nostalgia opens at EMMEDIAMackenzie Bedford brings together the projection mapping work of gender-diverse artists who explore memory as something fragile, layered, and constantly in motion. Out of Reach by Nicole Santangelo 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. About Nicole SantangeloI 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. Reminiscence by Jacqueline Huskisson 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 HuskissonJacqueline 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. Play it Again by Meryl Prendergast ‘Play It Again!’ uses my personal family archive to explore how we represent history in a way that makes it felt. Using the language of textiles, I translated oral histories, scrapbooks, and VHS tapes to construct an immersive theatrical dreamscape of my childhood. Weaving important locations, or “theatre sets” from my earliest memories using muted tones, fuzzy yet sparkly yarns, I fabricate echoes of the past through the rose colored glasses of girlhood. Further expanding on the fragility of memory, I project the figures from old home movies onto the uneven cloth, like glowing ghosts that fade in and out of view. About Meryl PrendergastMeryl Prendergast is an American textile artist based in London. Sitting at the intersection of technology and textiles, her practice combines jacquard weaving, digital embroidery, and projections to explore collective memory and worldbuilding through the lens of archive. She recently completed her Masters in Textiles from the Royal College of Art in London. During her MA, she used her own childhood archives as a testing ground for ideas and techniques, exploring themes of home and belonging as she navigated settling in a new country as a young queer, chronically ill woman. She aims to utilize the skills developed during her MA to work with community groups and cultural centers to transform their archives and highlight their thought provoking narratives, connecting the past and present to imagine a bright future. She seeks to explore how we represent history, creating installations that make these stories felt.
