The exhibition Futurisms draws inspiration from the influential speculations on “cosmic consciousness” by London, Ontario-based radical psychiatrist R.M. Bucke (1837-1902), who envisioned a utopian future of social transformation and augmented intelligence. Treating the gallery as a laboratory for visual experimentation, curator Adam Lauder brings together Toronto-based artists Luis Jacob, Jay Isaac, Olia Mischenko, Turner + Pirbhai, and Young & Giroux to both recover and challenge the avant-garde’s potential to engage and transform the social. The artists employ distinct yet complementary strategies to elaborate critical perspectives on the recent and distant past while weaving futural fictions. 

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Jay Isaac, Untitled - from the series The Sponges, 2014, acrylic and chalk on canvas, 60” x 48".