This Nuit Blanche, we invite you down to The Bentway neighbourhood for a series of installations that light up the areas along the Gardiner Expressway.
Premiering for the City of Toronto’s Nuit Blanche on Saturday, October 5th, we’re pleased to renew the monumental Staging Grounds scaffolding towers (45 Dan Leckie Way) with a new work by Andrea Heimer that explores the phenomenon of urban loneliness and the actions we can take as a city to move closer to one another. Nestled in the dense CityPlace neighbourhood, Heimer’s work negotiates the tensions of a community living in close proximity to one another where social isolation is still highly prevalent.
Also new this year, we’re pleased to be partnering with Ontario Culture Days to present Aaron Jones’ Sky Mirage, which was commissioned and produced as part of Ontario Culture Days’ Creatives in Residence series and will be presented at Bentway Staging Grounds. Installed just north of Billy Bishop Toronto City airport, Sky Mirage is an inflatable airborne mirror that offers viewers a space in the sky to see themselves and each other, creating an entry point for explorations about floating, inflation, and aviation.
It’s also your last chance to experience Softer City, our summer exhibition that explores softness as a means of humanizing our cities, connecting communities, and creating space for collective repair. Artwork is presented at The Bentway main site (250 Fort York Blvd.), and features pieces by Chloë Bass, Rosana Cade and Kirk Lisaj, Heather Nicol, Nnenna Okore, and Nico Williams.
