The Power Plant: Fall and Winter Exhibitions
Experience immersive art installations!
Immerse yourself in art exhibits that explore different themes and societal commentaries.
This season, The Power Plant presents the first major solo exhibition in Toronto by Vancouver-born, UK-based artist Zadie Xa, created with longtime collaborator, artist Benito Mayor Vallejo, as well as internationally acclaimed Los Angeles-based artist Sharon Lockhart’s latest film and photographs.
Alongside this, the gallery will show Owner of a Lonely Heart, a film program featuring Haig Aivazian, Stephanie Comilang, Alia Farid, Hope Pearl Strickland, and Yuyan Wang, in parallel with two new commissions by Ella Gonzales and Sami Tsang, and Morgan Sears-Williams taking over The Power Plant’s South Facade Billboard..
The Power Plant Art Gallery offers free admission for all!
Smockstack Commission Program:
Marking the inaugural Smokestack Commission Program, What We Carry Forward by mixed-media artist Sami Tsang is a site-specific large-scale ink mural inspired by childhood shadow puppetry and populated by tiny porcelain figurines of girls.
Through this imagined world of play, protection and collective movement, Tsang considers the quieter inheritances passed between generations, and what each chooses to preserve, transform or leave behind.
Fleck Clerestory Commission Program:
The Power Plant continues its longstanding Fleck Clerestory Commission Program with Ella Gonzales’s A Room’s Proportion, above or below. The work transforms the gallery with layers of painted, translucent fabric based on the proportions of domestic interiors recalled by the artist from memory.
South Facade Billboard:
The image in feeling along the edges, consists of several 16mm film strips collated into one frame, capturing Hanlan’s Point Beach, a site of queer community and refuge. Witnessing the gradual geological erosion that is currently occurring there, Sears-Williams filmed the beach, then developed the film in instant coffee and buried it in the sand for five days.
The resulting work mirrors the ecological disintegration of Hanlan’s Point with the disappearance of longstanding public spaces for queer communities.
Fogo
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.
Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything
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.
Owner of a Lonely Heart
Don't miss your chance to see these compelling exhibits before they're gone!
Information sourced from https://www.thepowerplant.org/whats-on/exhibitions