Blueprints by Kennedy Soong Bouchard – Trinity Square Video

Exhibition

Blueprints

Kennedy Soong Bouchard: Blueprints

Trinity Square Video is pleased to present Blueprints, a participatory photography installation by Kennedy Soong Bouchard that explores self-representation, community, and the lived experiences of women with chronic, invisible, and life-altering illnesses.

Created through a series of collaborative workshops, the exhibition features large-scale cyanotype body prints made by participants who played an active role in shaping how their stories and identities are represented. Alongside the photographs, the exhibition includes participant-written texts, textile works, video documentation, and take-home materials that extend the project’s themes of connection and collective care.

By bringing together artistic collaboration and shared lived experience, Blueprints highlights photography’s potential as a tool for empowerment, healing, and community-building, while creating space for women to speak for themselves and their experiences.

Blueprints was produced in the Documentary Media MFA Program at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Opening Reception: June 10, 6 – 9PM

Kennedy Soong Bouchard

Kennedy Soong Bouchard (she/her) is a Toronto-based photographer whose work explores themes of women’s illness, healing, resilience, and the body. Working primarily through photography whilst adapting interdisciplinary approaches to each project, her practice is shaped by her personal experiences with cancer and chronic illness. Through intimate and community-oriented work, she aims to create spaces where vulnerability, care, and shared experiences can exist together, whilst encouraging others to recognise and celebrate their own resilience.

Kennedy holds a BFA in Photography Media Arts from Toronto Metropolitan University, and is currently an MFA candidate in Documentary Media at Toronto Metropolitan University with a specialisation in photography. Her current research focuses on women’s illness, socially engaged art, and art-therapy as a framework for impactful art creation. During her undergraduate studies, Kennedy received the University Library Special Collections First Edition Book Award and exhibited work through Artspace TMU’s Creative Market, where her print was selected for a Best in Show award presented by Open Studio.

Alongside her artistic practice, she coaches VOLT Hockey, an inclusive adaptive sport designed for individuals of varied abilities, reflecting her ongoing commitment to accessibility, community, and care both within and beyond the arts.

About Trinity Square

Founded in 1971, it is one of Canada’s first artist-run centres and its oldest media arts centre. We are a not-for-profit, charitable organization.

For 50 years, Trinity Square has been a champion of media arts practices. Our activities are guided by a goal to increase our members’ and audiences’ understanding and imagination of what media arts practices can be. Trinity Square strives to create supportive environments, encouraging artistic and curatorial experimentation that challenge medium specificity through education, production and presentation supports.

As video-based practices have become increasingly present across disciplines, Trinity Square engages artists and curators in critical investigations into the changing conditions of perception, materiality and the virtual. We consider all of our artistic activities and structures through a process of critical self-reflection, continuously evaluating the ethical positioning of our programming, jury structures, inter-organizational relationships, et cetera. In addition to holding aesthetic worth in its own right, our artistic programming extends our education and production activities in order to generate new knowledges.

Trinity Square’s programming is guided by three priorities: 1) promoting an expanded definition of media arts; 2) promoting the meaningful engagement of diverse voices in all levels of our operations; and 3) supporting and nurturing the production of new works by artists and curators. Our membership represents the diversity of the city and honours the original mandate of the organization—seeking to reduce barriers to access related to race, gender, sexual orientation, and socio- economic and physical ability.

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