05/07/2026
Join us on Thursday, May 15, from 5 - 8 PM for the opening reception of ๐ ๐๐ ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ ๐ง๐๐ผ: ๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ๐ ๐ ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ฎ๐ต๐ป | ๐๐น๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฎ
James Malzahn's () exhibition, ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ค๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐๐ฐ๐น examines how powerful systems enter everyday life by appearing useful, convenient, entertaining, and reassuring. Presented as a modern domestic device for safety and public information, it carries the appeal of something new: a media object families could watch, gather around, and feel proud to own. While rooted in a mid-century setting, the exhibition speaks to contemporary concerns around artificial intelligence, networked surveillance, and persuasive media: tools with the potential to benefit society, but also to manipulate, misinform, observe, and control when placed in the wrong hands. Through documentary material, archival traces, domestic space, and electronic installation, the work asks how belief is created and how authority becomes part of ordinary life. Rather than treating innovation as inherently dangerous, The Victory Box encourages awareness and critical discussion, inviting viewers to consider how technology, trust, comfort, and convenience shape both private life and public belief.
Elise Popa's exhibition, ๐ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ, tells the story of Popaโs own fallow season, encapsulated through an intuitive skating practice and the building of an ice rink on a farm just outside Stratford, Ontario. The documentation that follows the process of making the rink explores how the physical labour and repetitive maintenance tasks mirror the efforts needed to support the artistโs recovery and self-determination post heartbreak. The performance-for-camera works, in which a first-person body-mounted camera is worn, explores drawing and intuitive movement as a form of embodied agency. Through using the analogy of an agricultural fallow season, the exhibition portrays a regenerative year of self-healing and renewal after loss.
The exhibition will run from May 15 through 30.
