Exhibitions

As one canoes through the early morning mist, magical configurations appear all along the riverbanks, attached to branches and grasses. The sun shines through these spider webs and morning dew and prisms of light are created.

Max Dean has unleashed his imagination and invites viewers to participate in his creative process. Establishing a metaphor between Harbourfront Centre’s photography gallery and his studio, Dean plots the journey of his ideas from inception to realization.

As emerging artists interested in two fundamental elements of photographic representation, time and light, Elisa Julia Gilmour and Ben Freedman’s exhibition merges their two distinct interdisciplinary practices to uncover their procedural, thematic, and aesthetic commonalities. Each piece in the exhibition looks at the medium as a subject and an object through the dichotomous relationship between light and darkness, singularity and plurality, motion and stillness, and life and death.

Toronto-based artist Annie MacDonell will spend the month of May engaged in a self-directed residency at the Toronto Reference Library. Her focus is the library’s Picture Collection, a vast archive of images maintained by the library since the 1920s. Numbering over a million images sourced from a wide range of magazines, calendars, books, and other print media, it is a richly idiosyncratic and varied collection.

For over a decade, Michael Awad’s practice has been focused on the ambitious pursuit of photographing every facet of the urban experience in every city. Aptly titled, The Entire City Project, its scope includes the recording of the entire physical infrastructure of Toronto.