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Half-life
2025 MFA Group Exhibition

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Galleries 1, 2 & 3

The MFA Cohort of 2025-26 invites you to view and experience their currently work at the fall group show, Half-life, curated by Eunseon Park and Jessica Berry. Half-life will be presented in all three galleries of the Anna Leonowens Gallery from November 25th to December 6th. Please join the Artists for an opening reception on November 24th from 530-7pm at 1891 Granville St Halifax NS.

Why Half-life?

Half-life evokes multiple meanings, resonating across our diverse MFA cohort. Half life is visualized through the asymptote, the curved line forever approaching but never reaching a specific point. The asymptote is Zeno’s Paradox, the impossibility of movement: you must get halfway there before you get there, at which point you have to get halfway of halfway, and so on ad infinitum. There’s something about this that suggests an artist practice that is forever in process.

Half life also is an expression of decay, and a scientific measure of time & entropy, specifically the amount of time it takes for a particle to shed half its mass. A great atomic clock that ticks beyond the scale of human time, counting the hundreds of millenia it takes for an element like uranium to deplete its store of mass. The equally geological timescale of other materials we create, consume, and extract evokes the artwork’s promise of life-after-death for the artist - what is the half life of the products of our labour?

Regardless, it is important to remember, there is always more than half a life left to live, in both our personal and our artistic lived experiences.