This solo exhibition by Halifax-based artist Michael Fernandes includes video projections, signage project, and off-site sculpture on the campus of UTM. Fernandes has long been interested in the nature of the everyday. His raw and often understated works unravel common sense, habitual perception and the certainties of individual will and purpose. With low tech means and sense of humour, his works aim at the security of language, the pretensions of power. Having worked in installation, performance, text-based and more ephemeral media for over 30 years, his recent projects are increasingly realized in the form of video-works and video-performance. The works in the current exhibition, for instance, consist of several short, casual scenarios, each punctuated by an unexpected occurrence or strange appearance -- a street prank, someone wearing a nice hat, hailing a stranger or just standing around sucking a lollypop. These “events” are presented without circumscription, explanatory voice-over, or narrative closure. Set within an ordinary street or against the backdrop of generic public spaces, the dead-pan camera work makes the unusual into a matter of fact. It becomes comedic and disconcerting at once – a confrontation with paradox and failed intention.