Julie Oh: Very Big Forces by Simon Fuh
In my experience, there’s a strange thing that happens when you start collecting rocks: relatively quickly, the world becomes fractal. Each rock betrays the enormity of the scene behind it just asmuch as it reaffirms its uniqueness. The puckered holes, rounded edges, pores and sheen…
Arrivals and Departures: Heather Nicol
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time TS Elliot, excerpt from The Four Quartets The artists in Arrivals and Departures examine transitional moments, from…
Certain Things from Uncertain Moments: Shane Krepakevich
This exhibition is an archive of physical forms that bear the time and work of 조향. It is not an archive whose focus is the persistent fidelity of forms. It is an archive like a forest floor is an archive, thriving in the flux of…
Under the Sun: Daniel Gallay
It is a fundamental, unbreakable law of this universe that energy is not created or destroyed, it only changes form. It may not be made, but it may be transfigured. Energy released from nuclear fusion taking place within the gravity of our sun hurtles into…
A Path in the Garden: A Conversation between Yam Lau and Susan Rowe Harrison
model, garden, mirror Yam Lau: Let us recall the lovely afternoon when we viewed the delicate model you made for the present exhibition at the YYZ Artists’ Outlet. You had casually placed the model (of a garden?) in a garden, amidst the plants at the…
Escaping into Ourselves: Fragments and Ethereal Beauty By Timothy Yanick Hunter
Escaping the human form, subverting restrictive ideas around identity and the self – Jones’ work affirms our spiritual-symbiotic relationship to nature. Layered cuts of paper, intentional but free, shape dreamy and amorphous figures. Aaron evokes the unreal and beautifully strange yet the geography is…
The Shadow of Your Smile by Alanna Thain
Desire lines are everyday traces that mark where bodies wander at will. Their pragmatic urgency might trample a grassy path that shortcuts across a park; over time they become their own contagious attractors, through repetition. But it is that first impulse to step off the…
Staying with and in the displacement: erosion, porosity, and (im)permanence in Continental Drift by Justine Kohleal
Eva Kolcze, Continental Drift, 2021. 7:30 min video, 16mm to 2K, sound. Courtesy the artist. Squat, undulating hills and pink-hued mounds of earth slide into view; a cloud of dust billows, dissipating…
more than a soft touch By Nasrin Himada
“Poetry is spirit and it can come into anything you do.” -Etel Adnan If I begin by conjuring the spirit of Etel Adnan to be in dialogue here with the works of Sarah Pupo, then it would seem like it is for the purpose…
About A HUNGRY MAN IS AN ANGRY MAN by Muna Cann
A Hungry Man Is An Angry Man, an English proverb from the 17th century, is also the title of Gustavo Artigas’ solo exhibition at YYZ. Humans have been saying this proverb for 4 centuries and counting… If we deprive someone of their basic necessities, rage…