While driving along the highways that branch out of Toronto’s downtown, one witnesses a bewildering contrast of forces; nestled in rolling hills of wheat lie mammoth-sized shipping and logistic hubs.
ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
Sara Cwynar’s ‘Baby Blue Benzo Beta’ at MOCA Toronto
Contemporary image culture is often described through excess, whether through Guy Debord’s conception of the spectacle, Jean Baudrillard’s simulacra, or contemporary discourse surrounding the endless recursive circulation of algorithmic media.
Learning How to Pass the Time from Agatha’s Almanac
Upon first meeting Saskatoon-based director Amalie Atkins, I confess to crying, or rather sobbing, during the end credits of her feature film Agatha’s Almanac.
The Devil Within Me: A Photo Series by Tomas Dessureault
In a world where most new art feels sanitized, created to appease algorithms and be consumed through a screen, Montreal-based artist Tomas Dessurault is the antidote.
AMARA: The Body as Ritual
In DESIRA’s AMARA, the body becomes a threshold, wherein language recedes, narrative dissolves, and what remains is a symbolic choreography of gestures, textures, and psychic states that unfold like a ritual.
the “moorcore aesthetic” industrial complex
In the past few years there has an indelible rise in gothic aesthetics. From Yorgos Lanthimos’ whimsical Poor Things, to Robert Eggers’ exploration of female desire in Nosferatu and his upcoming folk-horror take on medieval werewolf mythos The Werewulf, to the controversial Emerald Fennell adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” released earlier this year.
Some Kind of Good Life: Christopher Sherman’s Afterlives of Shame
On October 14th, I clocked out of my day job and was seized by a want for sensuous experience. I needed to be gripped by art of some kind and brought back to life from the quotidian routines of the office, which left me feeling hard-boiled, bored, and cold.
Exposure Culture: Inside Egghead Republic’s Apocalypse of Ambition
Egghead Republic is a surreal satire set in a reimagined 2004, where the Cold War culminated in an atomic bomb being dropped on Soviet Kazakhstan.
Notes on the ‘Whorearchy’: Andrea Werhun and Nicole Bazuin on Modern Whore
“I want them to like me.” I twist nervously in the desk chair as I wait to be called in for my interview with writer, performer, and Sex Worker Andrea Werhun, and director, photo-illustrator Nicole Bazuin.
Couture at TIFF 2025: Alice Wincour’s Intimate Portrait of Fashion’s Hidden Seams
In a year where fashion’s collapse and reinvention are unfolding in real time, Alice Wincour’s Couture premiered at TIFF this past week like an unpinned hem: loose, fraying, yet undeniably alive.