September 9 – October 15, 2016

Opening Reception: Friday, September 9, 7-10pm

Dana Prieto

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Landing on this beautiful and prosperous territory, You will discover a new area of interest
where settlers occupy, develop and exploit its vast extensions, See reverse side
prompt me to ritualize the attempts of reading the poetic and prosaic layers of histories from an undignified flipside of the urbanscape: its inevitably junked surface. Il n’est jamais trop tard

The process of foraging trash from the Xpace’s surrounding streets, acquitté – Canada
plays with deviating ways of creating value and threading public and intimate narratives in these post-industrial, culturally vibrant wild ‘n mild
and rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods that graciously triangulate and intersect at the gallery’s location. Quels sont les effects sociaux,

While simultaneously encountering, intervening and exchanging corroded matter, I construct participatory experiences for uncanny stories to emerge through the marginal remainders that compose garbage. and snowshoes that they needed to travel over snow

-Dana Prieto, September 2016

This exhibition was created during Xpace’s summer residency program for OCAD U graduates.

Documentation by Yuula Benivolski