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…
Uneasy Objects: Recent Still Life Photography of Jimmy Limit
Uneasy Objects: Recent Still Life Photography of Jimmy Limit by Amish Morrell For a long time, one could easily find old photography field guides at used bookstores and yard sales. Widely published from the 1940s through the 1990s, these included Kodak’s How to Take…
10 Notes on Spirit Berries by Zoe Imani Sharpe
CEDAR EVE | SPIRIT BERRIES Image courtesy of YYZ. 10 Notes on Spirit Berries By Zoe Imani Sharpe In an interview with Yedda Morrison, poet Myung Mi Kim explains her thinking on poetic process: “[there is] always some kind of invisible, constant, millisecond-by-millisecond…
We Can Still Feel Their Tears in Our Hair by Kaitlyn Purcell
Images courtesy of the artist. BEWARE To the Indigenous people that may experience this space, please take care of yourself. We never deserved any of the pain that was passed down through being intergenerational survivors of Residential Schools. STAY OUT is written primarily to…
The three-body threshold or, Between the artists, the transcriber, and the viewer by Brendan A. de Montigny
Images courtesy of the artist. The three-body threshold or, Between the artists, the transcriber, and the viewer. By Brendan A. de Montigny Technical Points of Entry = Between Time + Space (All our wonder, unavenged) Location / ~120,000 light-years wide spiral galaxy with a bar-shaped…
Nothing to lose but our selves by C.W. Crawford
Image designed in collaboration with Jessica Negus. Image courtesy of the artist. I should begin by telling you that I won’t see it’s what’s inside that counts by Christine Negus in person. And from what Christine tells me, due to public health orders, vaccine supply…
Snail’s Space by August Klintberg
Images courtesy of the artist. Behind each fold and fringe is a flirtation – or is it a fabulation? Contours out of sight are shaped behind and within each form. There are folded and flat irregularly shaped panels. There are wig-like curtains. A fringe…
Pockets for air by Karina Irvine
Pockets for air by Karina Irvine …there is some action of cutting through surfaces to a site that has no business being underneath. What is the future doing underneath the past? —Anne Carson, Cassandra Float Can The main characteristic of foam is that it is…
Yesterday Today Tomorrow By Steven Matijcio
Yesterday Today Tomorrow by Steven Matijcio The institution of nation-states and their corresponding borders are as much a product of settlement, politics, colonization, conflicts, and treaties, as they are mythology, ideologies, and projection. Where lines are drawn and where citizenship begins, and ends, are human…