Soft Turns @ Gallery 44
Cold Data
Soft Turns
September 19–November 8, 2025
Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
Main Space
During their 2023-24 residency at Gallery 44, Soft Turns (aka Wojciech Olejnik and Sarah Jane Gorlitz) researched non-human and decentralized intelligences from plants, ant colonies, watersheds and AI networks. The differences of these ‘decentralized intelligences’ from the Western tradition are striking: non-linear decision making, self-organizing systems, brainless organisms solving sophisticated spatial problems, ecosystems maintaining their own climate. Human-built environments, on the other hand, usually involve massive expenditures of energy, materials, rigid planning and control—without which our greenhouses, parkland, homes and data centres would fail. For example, in 2013 an actual cloud formed inside a Facebook data centre and it began to rain!
Cold Data reflects on the material presences and ecological impacts of digital infrastructures and our relationships to them. Centred in this exhibition is a stop motion animation, filmed inside Soft Turns’ model data centre (which they constructed from computer parts, aluminum heat sinks, staples, optic fibres and other recycled materials) in the sways of thermodynamic shifts.
Visit the G44 website to learn more about this fascinating exhibition.
Moudu Ekhar @ Arts Etobicoke
Territories: Reflections on Home
August 28–October 4, 2025
Cloverdale Common | Arts Etobicoke
Moudu Ekhar is one of the featured artists in the first exhibition in the new Territories series, Reflections on Home. The series explores the deep connection between people and the spaces they inhabit, examining how environments shape identity, culture, and social interactions.
In this inaugural edition, Reflections on Home focuses on the idea of home and the emotions tied to personal spaces. Through the work of local artists, it invites conversations about how home is defined, remembered, and experienced—whether as a place of comfort, displacement, or transformation.
Exhibition details and directions are available on the Arts Etobicoke website.
Lilian Radovac @ the Won Lee Community Arts Hub
Won Lee Artists & Community Talk Series
Saturdays: 1:00–4:00 p.m.
September 13/20/27, 2025
Won Lee Community Arts Hub
Lilian Radovac will speak about her current work as part of the National accessArts Centre's upcoming Won Lee Artists & Community Talk Series. Curated by Bushra Junaid and facilitated by writer and craft artist Ana Moyer, the series invites presenters to share how their practice engages with community and care from a disability perspective. Together, they consider disability-centred approaches to care and their potential to transform the ways in which we live, and how art and culture align with them.
Visit the NaAC event page to read more about the series and to register.
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