see you there // meet me here: echoes of eau claire

Featuring
Brady Fullerton, Danny Luong
and Stephen Chan

May 23 – July 12, 2025

One year after Eau Claire Market’s closure, see you there // meet me here: echoe of eau claire investigates the complicated emotions and memories surrounding what we may be losing or gaining with the demolition of this iconic mall.

Through installations and found objects, as well as still images, video work, and audio captured in the final weeks before the mall’s official closure in May 2024, this exhibition showcases the mall during the last few moments of its 30-year life.

Throughout its history, the mall struggled with its identity, and underwent varying states of growth, decline, and uncertainty. Even now, in its death throes, the demolition site remains in a state of ambiguity about its future.

Part of mourning is collective remembering.

Each person’s experience of the mall was unique, often contextualized by when they visited the mall and what resonated with them at that time. In that spirit, this show also provides a space for visitors to formally document all these rich, nuanced memories, and add them to our exhibition. As a community, we can gather here and remember this mall, its artifice, and its relationship to our own personal histories.

How do we remember something that was never fully realized?

How do we collectively mourn an imperfect thing?

Personal contributions included 14 photographs and a poem titled last2fall.

More information and photographs on The New Gallery’s website here

Documentation by Stefan Legisa