Towards

Viktor Fordell’s practice spans, photography, collage, sculpture, and found objects - often focussing on the overlooked poetics of urban spaces. We recently spoke to him about reflections, transformation, and if a photograph is ever really done.

Read the full conversation at the link in bio.

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Uniting the works in “Material Imaginations” is their engagement with the ephemeral–their attempt to render permanent that which is fundamentally transient. Water - fluid, mutable, and perpetually in motion, resists containment. The works in “Material Imaginations” grapple with this contradiction–capturing fleeting, elusive, moments and suspending them in time, negotiating the tension between movement and stillness, permanence and dissolution.

Matt Schust Sophia Lapres viktorfordell Maria Trabulo

Material Imaginations continues at the gallery.

Viktor Fordell’s practice spans photography, collage, sculpture, and found objects, often focusing on the overlooked poetics of urban space. For the works within his Material Imaginations, he turns his attention to the minutia within the city – capturing a series of water droplets in the moments right before they break. Set against obscured backgrounds of diffused light, each droplet contains a world nested within – brimming with potential but forever suspended in a perpetual state of becoming.

Pictured here is
Viktor Fordell
Waterdrops 3, 2025
Giclée print, mounted on dibond, in artist’s frame
18 x 31½ x ¾ in.

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Congratulations to Kareem-Anthony Ferreira on the unveiling of a major public artwork commissioned as part of the new Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Legacy Court at the TD Coliseum in Hamilton ON.

Earlier this year, Gilgeous-Alexander joined TD Coliseum as an investor. Kareem–Anthony Ferreira was selected to create a new permanent installation for the Ares Atrium – the entrance hall to the new court, named after SGA’s son. Drawing on themes of identity, memory, and belonging, the work expands on Ferreira’s existing practice while celebrating SGA’s contributions to the city both on and off the court.

Photos by Wilson Duong and Brilynn Ferguson Wilson Duong Brilynn Ferguson

Kareem-Anthony Ferreira TD Coliseum Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

Material Imaginations is now open at the gallery. Visit us Thursday-Saturday, 12-5pm.

Drawing inspiration from Gaston Bachelard’s 1942 text L’eau et les rêves (Water and Dreams), the exhibition brings together a selection of works that use water as a point of departure to explore themes of memory, temporality, and transformation.

Uniting the works in Material Imaginations is their engagement with the ephemeral–their attempt to render permanent that which is fundamentally transient. Water–fluid, mutable, and perpetually in motion, resists containment. The works in Material Imaginations grapple with this contradiction–capturing fleeting, elusive, moments and suspending them in time–negotiating the tension between movement and stillness, permanence and dissolution.

Featuring work by Viktor Fordell, Sophia Lapres, Matt Schust, and Maria Trabulo.

viktorfordell Sophia Lapres Matt Schust Maria Trabulo

This is your last week to view Maria Trabulo’s work as part of The Coimbra Biennial of Contemporary Art. Curated by Hans Ibelings and John Zeppetelli, the exhibition brings together over 60 international artists, architects, and filmmakers. Titled “To hold, to give, to receive,” the exhibition closes Sunday, July 5, 2026.

Installation images by Jorge das Neves

Anozero – Bienal de Coimbra Maria Trabulo

Matt Schust is included in our current exhibition “Material Imaginations.”

Schust’s practice explores themes of memory, place, and the ways in which meaning is made. Throughout his work, there is a softening of reality; an atmospheric quality that allows the paintings to exist somewhere between lived experience and fragmented memory. Distinctions between geography and temporality, past and present, and the real and the imagined begin to dissolve. This approach reveals a deep engagement with elements in flux, transition, and the ephemeral.

Pictured here is
Matt Schust
Avenue 4 (Poolside), 2026
Oil on canvas
16 x 12 in.

Matt Schust

Fantastic new painting by Sophia Lapres that will be included in our upcoming group exhibition.

Pictured here is
Sophia Lapres
Bomb, 2026
Oil on archival rag paper
24 x 16 in.

Sophia Lapres

Adam Shiu-Yang Shaw is profiled by in the current issue of BlackFlash Magazine.

“My first introduction to his work was his solo exhibition, “Vinegar Stone & the Language of Flowers,” at Towards in Toronto in 2017... I remember being struck by the ambitiousness of the installation and its intricacy; Shaw’s proficiency was instantly apparent...”

Read the full profile at the link in bio

Last chance ⏰ ‼️‼️

Today is your last chance to view Ian Willms’ “The Hound”. The gallery is open 12-5pm.