Canadian Art online editor Leah Sandals discusses “No Flat City,” an edifying public art project at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto.
In this video report, Canadian Art online editor Leah Sandals visits “No Flat City: Toronto’s Incomparable Terrain”—an exhibition of work by six younger Toronto-based photographers that happens on dozens of outdoor panels at Harbourfront Centre until June 2015. To watch, click on the Video icon above.
As Sandals notes, the title of the exhibition hearkens back to No Mean City, the 1964 book that sparked Toronto’s architectural preservation movement. Here, however, curator Patrick Macaulay seems to be redirecting the call for awareness and preservation towards Toronto’s oft-undervalued natural spaces—including ravines, shorelines and hills of various kinds.
“No Flat City” includes photographs by Sarah Burtscher, Chloe Ellingson, Brett Gundlock, Brendan George Ko, Darren Rigo and Victoria Vitasek, each of whom takes a different approach to picturing Toronto’s topography. Some immerse themselves in the city’s little-seen (though internationally distinctive) ravine system, while others focus on manufactured landscapes and portraiture. For more details, click on the Video icon above.
