Christina Leslie (b. 1983, Pickering, Ontario) is a Toronto-based artist with a BFA from OCAD University (2006) and an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design (2022).

Christina Leslie (b. 1983, Pickering, Ontario) is a Toronto-based artist who holds a BFA from OCAD University (2006) and an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design (2022). Leslie’s photographs have been shown at major institutions worldwide, including GAMU in Prague, Oakland University in Michigan, the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada’s Pier 21, the Art Gallery of Windsor, the McMaster Museum of Art, and MOCA Toronto. In 2025, Leslie has had solo exhibitions at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, and at the Ottawa School of Art. She is represented by the Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto.

The South Facade Billboard is an ongoing series of photographic works that resonate with the context within which they are presented on the lake-facing exterior wall of the gallery. For this edition, The Power Plant has partnered with ERA Architects to showcase the work of artist Christina Leslie in a presentation that aligns with the goals of Art=Waterfront, an ERA-led initiative that identifies the waterfront as a vital space to foster and celebrate the city’s artistic and cultural landscape.
 
Part of Leslie’s photographic series Pinhole Parishes (2023-25), the selected image, _Pinhole 11_, explores memory, place, and intergenerational connection through the lens of her Jamaican heritage. Drawing inspiration from stories and memories shared by relatives, Leslie's images create a dialogue between past and present, reconstructing familial and cultural histories shaped by migration, geography, and fragmented archives. At once a personal act of remembrance and a broader act of reclamation, the series maps stories across all fourteen civil territorial divisions in Jamaica known as parishes. 
  
  
**About the Artist**  
**Christina Leslie** (b. 1983) is a Pickering-based photographic artist. She holds a BFA from OCAD University (2006) and an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design (2022). Leslie has exhibited at institutions including GAMU in Prague, Oakland University in Michigan, the Royal Ontario Museum, BAND Gallery, Canada’s Pier 21, the Art Gallery of Windsor, Prefix Photo, the McMaster Museum of Art, MOCA Toronto, and many others. Recent exhibitions include Likkle Acts at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (2024–2025) and Pinhole Portraits and Places at Stephen Bulger Gallery (2025). She also served as Interim Assistant Curator at the McMaster Museum of Art, curating THE GREAT UNSEEN(2025). Her photographs are held in private, corporate, and institutional collections, and she is represented by Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto.


South Facade Billboard: Christina Leslie

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Christina Leslie, Pinhole 11, 2024. Courtesy the artist. Installation view: The Power Plant, Toronto, 2025. Photo: LF Documentation.

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Claire Greenshaw is a visual artist and a doctoral candidate in the Department of Visual Arts at York University, Toronto.

Claire Greenshaw (b. 1980 in Cardiff, UK; lives and works in Toronto, CA) is a visual artist and a doctoral candidate in the Department of Visual Arts at York University, Toronto. Her research takes up ideas about the circulation of images, feminist approaches to the archive, and the experience of time under late capitalism and the Anthropocene. She has held recent exhibitions at: The Gund, (Gambier, OH (2025); the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener (2024–25); and two seven two, Toronto (2024). 

Leisure is a collaborative art practice founded in 2004 by Meredith Carruthers and Susannah Wesley.

Leisure (Meredith Carruthers, b. 1975 in St Catharines, CA, and Susannah Wesley, b. 1976 in Simcoe, CA; live and work in Montreal, CA) is a collaborative art practice founded in 2004 by Meredith Carruthers and Susannah Wesley. Their research-based practice explores subjects such as feminist cultural history, working in friendship, and children’s right to creativity—particularly as an antidote to climate anxiety. They have held solo exhibitions at Optica, Montreal (2025); Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON (2023–24); and at Musée d’art de Joliette, Quebec (2018–19). Carruthers and Wesley are currently working on a precedent- setting collaborative PhD at Concordia University in Montreal. 

Sassa Linklater is Omaskêko Ininu from Moose Cree First Nation and Sugpiaq from the Native Villages of Afognak and Port Lions in Alaska.

Sassa Linklater (lives and works in North Bay, ON) is Omaskêko Ininu from Moose Cree First Nation and Sugpiaq from the Native Villages of Afognak and Port Lions in Alaska. A multimedia artist, she beads, sews, paints on parfleche, and makes digital art. Sassa was crowned Miss Nipissing in 2023 and Miss Wikwemikoong in 2025. She dances old style jingle, old style fancy and woodland, makes dancing regalia, and sings at powwows and round dances. Sassa has shown animations at Trinity Square Video, Toronto (2020) and All My Relations Arts, Minneapolis (2017). She is featured in _A gentle reassembly_ (2022), _They fall the ground beneath you_ (2018), and _The treaty is in the body_ (2017)—videos by Tanya Lukin Linklater concerning embodied Indigenous knowledge and material culture. She plans to attend university to become a Cree language teacher like her late tanisko caban (great-grandmother), Agnes Hunter of Peawanuck. 

Tobias Linklater is Sugpiaq from Alaska and Omaskêko Cree from James Bay, ON. He is majoring in Art History at Carleton University in Ottawa and minoring in Anthropology.

Tobias Linklater (lives and works in Ottawa, ON) is Sugpiaq from Alaska and Omaskêko Cree from James Bay, ON. He is majoring in Art History at Carleton University in Ottawa and minoring in Anthropology. His short videos have been shown at Camden Art Centre, London, UK (2025); Trinity Square Video, Toronto (2020); All My Relation Arts, Minneapolis (2017); 80WSE Gallery, New York (2016­–17); and Mercer Union (2016), Toronto. As a member of the group, _eagles with eyes closed_, he performs and records original musical scores/compositions with Duane Linklater, including: _buffalounit for bison bison (dance_hum for dirtbath)_, DIA Chelsea, New York (2025); _Treaty Past Present Future [Modest Livelihood]_ at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2024); _eagles with eyes closed for the sun tunnels_ at DIA Chelsea, New York (2021); and _primaryuse_, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2020). 

Ana Mendieta was a prolific multidisciplinary artist working across painting, drawing, photography, film/video, sculpture, and site-specific work.

Ana Mendieta (b. 1948 in Havana, CU; d. 1985 in New York, US) was a prolific multidisciplinary artist working across painting, drawing, photography, film/video, sculpture, and site-specific work. She is best known for her “earth-body” works, in which she used her own body to create silhouettes formed from natural materials such as earth, flowers and fire. Through these works, Mendieta explored themes of displacement informed by her experience living in exile from her home country, Cuba. Ana Mendieta’s work has been exhibited in important solo exhibitions and museum retrospectives, in venues such as: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, ES (2024); SESC Pompéia, São Paulo (2023); Baltimore Museum Of Art (2020);  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2016); Hayward Gallery, London, UK (2013); Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2013); Art Institute of Chicago (2011); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2004); Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (2004); and the New Museum, New York (1987). 

Rivane Neuenschwander’s participatory works are made in collaboration with the viewer and involve a combination of games, experiments, and spontaneous and participatory actions.

Rivane Neuenschwander’s (b. 1967 in Belo Horizonte, BR; lives and works in São Paulo, BR) participatory works are made in collaboration with the viewer and involve a combination of games, experiments, and spontaneous and participatory actions. Her works are shaped by an interest in language, nature, geography, time, and social interactions, and how these processes are connected. Her work has been shown in major arts organisations internationally, including: Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho Minas Gerais, BR (2024–26); Instituto Cultural Itaú, São Paulo (2024–25); Kinder Kunst Labor, St. Pölten, AT (2024–25); Serralves Foundation, Porto, PT (2022–23); Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, LI (2021–22); Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2015); São Paulo Museum of Modern Art (2014); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2011–12); Mälmo Konstall, SE (2010); and the New Museum, New York (2010). 

 

Harold Offeh is an artist working in a range of media including performance, video, photography, learning, and social arts practice.

Harold Offeh (b. 1977 in Accra, GH; lives and works in Cambridge and London, UK) is an artist working in a range of media including performance, video, photography, learning, and social arts practice. Offeh employs humour as a means to confront viewers with historical narratives and contemporary culture. He has exhibited widely throughout the United Kingdom and internationally, including at: BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2025–26); Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK (2025–26); Tate Modern, London, UK (2019); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2016); and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2013–14). 

Temitayo Ogunbiyi’s art explores the relationship between the environment, line, and representation.

Temitayo Ogunbiyi’s (b. 1984 in Rochester, US; lives and works in Lagos, NG) art explores the relationship between the environment, line, and representation. Moving between drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation, her work responds to global current events, anthropological histories, and botanical cultures. Her artwork has been shown at prestigious museums and galleries internationally, including: Kunstverein Hannover, DE (2025); The Noguchi Museum, New York (2025); Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (2024); DE SINGEL, Antwerp (2024); Museum Tinguely, Basel (2023–24); Frieze Sculpture Park, London, UK (2023); Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2023); South London Gallery, London, UK (2023); and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL (2022). 

Robin Rhode engages in a variety of visual languages such as photography, performance, drawing, painting, and sculpture.

Robin Rhode (b. 1976 in Cape Town, ZA; lives and works in Berlin, DE) engages in a variety of visual languages such as photography, performance, drawing, painting, and sculpture to create arrestingly beautiful narratives that are brought to life using quotidian materials such as soap, charcoal, chalk, and paint. Rhode has had major solo and group exhibitions at a number of important museums around the world, including: Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2013); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (2010); Hayward Gallery, London, UK (2008); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2007–8); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2005); and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2005). 

_Colourful Parachutes: Imagining Alternative Futures Through the Power of Play_ brings together leading artists from Canada and abroad to examine the politics of the exhibition space through the radical power of play. Imagining children as the exhibition’s primary audience, it puts into question how we make, present, and experience contemporary art—often with unexpected and uniquely engaging results. Influenced by exhibitions like Palle Nielsen’s _The Model_ (1968), which turned Stockholm’s Moderna Museet into a giant adventure playground, _Colourful Parachutes_ views the gallery as a microcosm of society. If we allow children to reinvent it, what new worlds can we co-create? 

A key theme underlying _Colourful Parachutes_ is the relationship young people have to the future. Many of the works in the exhibition touch on the vital importance of fostering a relationship to the natural world during childhood, the increasing sense of eco-anxiety carried by young people, and how to advocate for child-led environmental activism. 

The title is borrowed from Ailton Krenak’s book _Ideas to Postpone the End of the World_ (2019), in which the Brazilian Indigenous philosopher and environmental activist suggests using creativity and dreaming to create colourful parachutes that might slow our fall. Krenak asks: “What sort of world are you boxing and wrapping for future generations? You keep talking about another world, but have you asked the generations of tomorrow if the world you’re building is the world they want?” 

Including several participatory, interactive works, _Colourful Parachutes_ transforms the gallery into a space where things can be made, moved, played with, tried out, tested, and touched. By disrupting the formal conventions that we are accustomed to in the gallery, it encourages people of all ages to become active participants in the shaping of their environment by giving them the power to envision a different world for us all.  

**Artists include:** Claire Greenshaw (Canada), Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley) (Canada), Sassa Linklater (Canada), Tobias Linklater (Canada), Ana Mendieta (Cuba/United States), Rivane Neuenschwander (Brazil), Harold Offeh (United Kingdom), Temitayo Ogunbiyi (United States/Nigeria/Jamaica), and Robin Rhode (South Africa/Germany)

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Sharon Lockhart (b. 1964, Norwood, Massachusetts, US) creates installations, photography, film, painting and sculpture that explore landscapes and those that inhabit them, leading a practice that builds upon deep, long-term commitments to her collaborators and subjects.

**Sharon Lockhart** (b. 1964, Norwood, Massachusetts, US) creates installations, photography, film, painting and sculpture that explore landscapes and those that inhabit them, leading a practice that builds upon deep, long-term commitments to her collaborators and subjects. Layered histories and a multifaceted present become the origins for concise, rigorous compositions that delicately interrogate attention and focus. Often undertaking extended projects that yield cycles of interconnected works across media, Lockhart employs a research-intensive approach to immerse herself within communities, building trust and bonds in the process.

Sharon Lockhart has been the subject of solo exhibitions at international museums and institutions, including Walter Phillips Gallery,
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff (2025); Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee (2022, 2019); Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao (2021); Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore (2021); Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Modena (2018); Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne (2015); Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2014); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (2012); Secession, Vienna (2008); Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg (2008); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago (2001); and MAK – AustrianMuseum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna (2000). Her work has been included in the Shanghai Biennale (2025, 2014), Biennale di Venezia (2017, Polish Pavilion), Liverpool Biennial (2014) and the Whitney Biennial, New York (1997, 2000, 2004). Her films have been presented in the New York Film Festival, Vienna International Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Berlin International Film Festival
and Sundance Film Festival. Lockhart lives and works in Los Angeles.

The Power Plant, in partnership with The Vega Foundation, is proud to present _Fogo_, an exhibition of work by the internationally acclaimed Los-Angeles-based artist Sharon Lockhart that was made over the course of four summers on Newfoundland’s Fogo Island. The exhibition consists of a series of photographs, collectively entitled _Fogo Island Portrait Studio_, that pictures the island’s young residents, alongside _WINDWARD_, a film installation featuring the same protagonists that brings to life the island’s striking geological formations, unique climate, and austere beauty. These works build on core themes that have continued to define Lockhart’s career: an exploration of place, a durational approach to attention, and a long-term commitment to those who appear before her lens.  

_WINDWARD_ is co-commissioned and co-produced by Shorefast/Fogo Island Arts, The Vega Foundation, and the National Gallery of Canada, with the support of The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery and Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. 

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Zadie Xa has developed an expansive practice that addresses the nature of diasporic identities, global histories, familial legacies, and interspecies communication. Artist Benito Mayor Vallejo has worked in close collaboration with Xa exploring painting, installation, performance, and sculpture. 


**Zadie Xa** has developed an expansive practice that addresses the nature of diasporic identities, global histories, familial legacies, and interspecies communication. For her, art offers a means to analyse socio-political conditions and cultural behaviours through a lens of masquerade, play, costuming, and storytelling. Embracing a highly collaborative mode of working, she has developed ongoing exchanges with dancers and musicians and has worked with Benito Mayor Vallejo since 2006. 

Solo exhibitions of Xa’s work have been presented at Whitechapel Gallery, London; The Box, Plymouth; Leeds Art Gallery; Remai Modern, Saskatoon; Tramway, Glasgow; and Yarat Contemporary Art Space, Baku. Xa has also participated in the Jeju Biennale (2022), the 13th Shanghai Biennale, and the Sharjah Biennial 16, for which she was nominated for the Turner Prize 2025. Xa has a BFA from Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, Vancouver, and an MFA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London. 

**Benito Mayor Vallejo** completed a BFA at the Université Polytechnique de Valencia and an MA from Chelsea College of Arts, London. He has participated in exchange programmes at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze and Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, Vancouver. Since 2006, alongside his own practice, he has worked in close collaboration with Zadie Xa exploring painting, installation, performance, and sculpture. 

In October 2026, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery will present the first major solo exhibition in Ontario of Vancouver-born, UK-based artist Zadie Xa, made in collaboration with long-term collaborator, artist Benito Mayor Vallejo. 

An immersive installation that responds to the specific context of The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, the exhibition will combine new and existing works, including paintings by Xa, murals, sound, and a mobile sculpture made of over 600 brass bells, suspended from the gallery’s ceiling in the shape of a conch shell, co-created by Xa together with Mayor Vallejo. Visitors will experience a vibrant, multi-sensory environment that connects Xa’s ongoing exploration of storytelling, Korean mythology, folklore, diasporic identity, and marine ecology to the shores of Lake Ontario.  

_Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything_ is organized and developed in partnership with Esker Foundation, Calgary, where it is on view from May 23 to August 23, 2026, and PHI, Montréal, where it will be on view from April 29 to September 12, 2027.

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Haig Aivazian’s practice grapples with the metamorphic nature of three technologies: artificial light, computation, and law. 

**Haig Aivazian**’s practice grapples with the metamorphic nature of three technologies: artificial light, computation, and law. He examines the ways in which the administration of light and darkness makes and unmakes persons and transforms material conditions of architecture and geography—how they are inhabited and moved through by humans, animals, objects, machines, and other strange creatures. Aivazian was Artistic Director of Beirut Art Center (BAC) from 2020 to 2022, where he founded and edited [thederivative.org](thederivative.org).

Stephanie Comilang (b. 1980, Toronto, Canada) is an artist living and working between Toronto and Berlin. Her documentary-based works create narratives that look at how mobility, capital, and labour are shaped on a global scale through various cultural and social factors. 

**Stephanie Comilang** (b. 1980, Toronto, Canada) is an artist living and working between Toronto and Berlin. Her documentary-based works create narratives that look at how mobility, capital, and labour are shaped on a global scale through various cultural and social factors. Her solo exhibition Stephanie Comilang: Search for Life, curated by Chus Martínez, opened at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid in March 2024. The second part of the exhibition, curated by Amal Khalaf, was presented at the Sharjah Biennial 16, United Arab Emirates in 2025. Her work was included in the Hawai‘i Triennial, curated by Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Binna Choi, and Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu, in 2025.

Comilang’s collaborative exhibition with Simon Speiser, Piña, Why is the Sky Blue?, has been shown at the Mackenzie Gallery, Regina; Gallery TPW, Toronto; Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin; Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff; Tate Modern, London; University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, and will travel to Silverlens, Manila in fall 2024. She has had solo exhibitions at Gallery 44, Toronto; ChertLüdde, Berlin; The Institute for Endotic Research, Berlin; and MOCA, Toronto. Her work can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; The Contemporary Art Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin; Musée d’art de Contemporain, Montreal; Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, among others. Comilang was the recipient of the 2019 Sobey Art Award, Canada’s most prestigious art prize.

Alia Farid (b. 1985, Kuwait) lives and works in Kuwait City, Kuwait, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her work explores the ways in which modernity reconfigures collectivity and ritual.

**Alia Farid** (b. 1985, Kuwait) lives and works in Kuwait City, Kuwait, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her work explores the ways in which modernity reconfigures collectivity and ritual. She has had solo exhibitions in Kunsthalle Basel; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam; and Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. Recent and upcoming group shows include participation in the Diriyah Biennale; Whitney Biennial; Bienal de São Paulo; Gwangju Biennale; Sharjah Biennial; Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011 at MoMA PS1; Yokohama Triennale; and Asia Pacific Triennial. She has forthcoming solo exhibitions in Chisenhale Gallery, London; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in partnership with Rivers Institute, CAC Passerelle and Detroit Institute of Arts. Farid has a BFA from la Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de Puerto Rico, San Juan, an MS from the Visual Arts Program in MIT, Cambridge, and an MA in Museum Studies and Critical Theory from the Programa d’Estudis Independents MACBA, Barcelona. She received the Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award (2023) and was the David and Roberta Logie Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute (2023–2024).

Hope Pearl Strickland is an artist-filmmaker from Manchester, UK working with experimental and documentary-based modes, incorporating archival, 16mm and digital practices. 

**Hope Pearl Strickland** is an artist-filmmaker from Manchester, UK working with experimental and documentary-based modes, incorporating archival, 16mm and digital practices. A particular focus is given to re-entangling the supposedly disparate landscapes of Jamaica and the North of England, through an attention to labour migration, diasporic longing, and resource extraction.

Hope’s work has screened internationally at film festivals including the 59th New York Film Festival; BFI London Film Festival (2022); International Film Festival Rotterdam (2025); and Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (New Cinema Awards, 2025). Presentations in exhibition spaces include Looking Back (Being and Memory) at Arnolfini, Bristol; Bugs and Metamorphosis: Glitching Photography by the Hasselblad Center at Gothenburg Art Museum; and the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes at Serpentine Galleries, London. Hope was awarded the Aesthetica Emerging Art Prize in 2023 and shortlisted for the Jarman Award in 2025. They are an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London.

Yuyan Wang (1989, China) is a filmmaker and video artist currently based in Paris. Her works involve recycled materials from the industrial sphere of image production, tracing their mutation and proliferation within digital frameworks and representations.

**Yuyan Wang** (1989, China) is a filmmaker and video artist currently based in Paris. Her works involve recycled materials from the industrial sphere of image production, tracing their mutation and proliferation within digital frameworks and representations. Through the editing process, Wang deconstructs and recontextualizes the intricate hierarchies and inherent meanings in materials — whether found, processed, or produced—stripping symbols of their conventional paths of perception and turning them into immersive, sensory experiences.

Her work has been showcased at the Venice Biennale; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; UCCA Beijing, the 12th Berlin Biennale, 15th Gwangju Biennale, and various festivals, such as the Berlinale International Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, MoMa Doc Fortnight, CPH:DOX, the European Media Art Festival, receiving numerous awards. Recent solo exhibitions include The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Wanås Konst, Sweden; 3 bis f – Centre d’arts contemporains, Aix-en-Provence; and Crac Alsace, Altkirtch.

The Power Plant and The Vega Foundation are excited to present a program of recent moving image works by contemporary artists. Curated to accompany the Fall 2026 season, _Owner of a Lonely Heart_ transforms the upstairs gallery at The Power Plant into a theatre playing a continuous 80-minute program. 

This program explores entanglement as a condition of contemporary life. Under the current system of global capitalism, we are enmeshed with one another. Like a seesaw, the prosperity, abundance, and stability that manifest in one place are often the direct result of the exploitation, scarcity, and violence produced in another. To think of enmeshment is to engage with how people are bound by circumscribed geography and unevenly shaped by networks of extraction and circulation. 

The works in this program chart the path of raw materials drawn from the earth, circulated via waterways, and transformed into commodities–be it pearls, oil, electricity, or plastic. Each work frames a dense web of relations linking labourers and ecosystems into global economies. The artists' works variously register the material conditions through which people conceive of their history and locate themselves within the barrage of the present.  

The Power Plant

Exhibitions

On View

South Facade Billboard: Christina Leslie

Colourful Parachutes: Imagining Alternative Futures Through the Power of Play

Upcoming Exhibitions

Sharon Lockhart: Fogo

Zadie Xa with Benito Mayor Vallejo: Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything

Owner of a Lonely Heart

Touring Exhibitions

Commissioning program