VISUAL ARTS
2FIK: HIS AND OTHER STORIES Assuming the multiple roles of artistic director, photographer and performer, 2Fik stages elaborate tableaux that often re-enact familiar compositions derived from famous paintings. Toying with reality, his constructed images destabilize the viewer’s assumed points of reference, playfully orchestrating scenes that comment thoughtfully on current society. Artscape Youngplace (180 Shaw St., 416-530-2787). Until Sunday. DESTINATION CANADA In celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday, Toronto Public Library and Passages Canada present an exhibit that explores our diverse experiences of migration, arrival and finding a place of belonging in Canada from early settlement to present day. Free guided tours on Tuesdays at 2 p.m. Reference Library (789 Yonge St., 416-395-5577). Until July 30. DEIRDRE LOGUE: ADMIRING ALL WE ACCOMPLISH Logue’s collaboration with VibraFusionLab’s David Bobier invites multi-sensorial exchanges between the audience and the work. Vibrational haptics set the backdrop to a polyphonic soundscape integrating tactile audio and video extensions to engender disability art aesthetics. The audience and artist’s interactions in this work are distinguishing features of deaf and disability art, exploring the space concerning our embodied experiences and the world. Tangled Art + Disability Gallery (401 Richmond St. W., Suite #122, 647-725-5064). Until June 30. DINA GOLDSTEIN: FALLEN PRINCESSES This series creates metaphors out of the myths of fairy tales, forcing the viewer to contemplate real life: failed dreams, addiction, cancer, the extinction of Indigenous culture, pollution, war and the fallacy of chasing eternal youth. The Fallen Princesses are recognized, studied and taught in art schools, photography programs and gender courses internationally. Part of the Contact Photography Festival. Gallery House (2068 Dundas St. W., 416-587-0057). Until June 10. GHAZALEH BANIAHMAD: ONE DAY, ONE VERY SIMPLE DAY This artist experiments and works intuitively with materials and processes using drawing, painting, photo-collage, sculpture and mixed media. Baniahmad also uses photography and found images and works primarily in black and white. This palette acts as a rich metaphor for memory, as she reflects on her own, and her mother’s, personal journeys. OISE (252 Bloor St. W., 416-978-0005). Until Sept. 30. THE GROUP OF SEVEN GUITAR PROJECT Eight masterwork guitars, commissioned from seven worldrenowned Canadian guitar makers in homage to a particular Group of Seven member and Tom Thomson, will be presented in the round, allowing viewers to walk around and explore the various landscapes in wood and inlay hosted by the musical instrument. McMichael Canadian Art Collection (10365 Islington Ave., Kleinburg, 905-893-1121). Until Oct. 29. THE INHABITANTS OF SPACE; FIELD NOTES Featuring work by artists Miles Collyer, Derek Coulombe, Erika DeFreitas and Alexis Dirks, it takes its title from the dedication of Edwin A. Abbott’s satirical novella Flatland (1962), which breaks down the geographical, architectural and social structures of the world into a two-dimensional parody. As in Abbott’s book, the artworks included in this exhibition explore three-dimensional space by flattening it, calling attention to the image surface through practices of reproduction and record making. Part of Contact Photography Festival. Open Studio Gallery (401 Richmond St. W., #104, 416-504-8238). Until June 10. IT’S ALL HAPPENING SO FAST: A COUNTER-HISTORY OF THE MODERN CANADIAN ENVIRONMENT features historical photographs of idyllic landscapes by William Notman and Alexander Henderson, as well as northern landscapes by Richard Harrington and Robert Frank, ‘60s industrial activity by George Hunter, and sites of nuclear production by Sam Tata. Part of Contact Photography Festival.