the person you see in this image is her, Zinnia by Nima Esmailpour
The two short films featured in the video installation at YYZ Artists’ Outlet are to be viewed as the videographic extension of Zinnia’s photographic works. These works are often presented in various iterations of staged photography that pair the photographed event with the photographic event,…
Is it morning yet? by Katie Lawson
Heidi Holmes and I have been emailing one another through the darkest months of the year. I am thinking about writing this text as we cross the threshold of the shortest day, the Winter Solstice. My own experience of time this month has been slippery,…
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 as much as it reaffirms its uniqueness. The puckered holes, rounded edges, pores and…
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…