La main du rêve
Pascal Grandmaison’s non-narrative films and videos offer poetic and critical meditations on the nature of representation. The experiments he carries out, on natural materials as much as on artificial ones, form a eulogy to decomposition, an ode to matter’s capacity to transform things, and the continual renewal of the cycle of living matter. A latent polarity manifests itself in the sweet tension of oppositional principles: light and dark, presence and absence, material and immaterial, force and fragility, reality and imaginary, distance and intimacy, gravity and weightlessness.
La main du rêve presents the slow journey of an invisible hand that activates nature in a surreal, reverse movement, as a constant oscillation between the deconstruction and reconstruction of organic matter. The video’s percussive soundtrack is made from a mathematical algorithm synthesizing the surface sounds of wood, metal, glass or rubber.
The Blackwood
University of Toronto Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Road
Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6
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(905) 828-3789
The galleries are open. Hours of operation: Monday–Saturday, 12–5pm.
Holiday hours: regular gallery hours are in effect until and including Saturday, December 6. The galleries will then be closed for the holidays, except for regular hours on Saturday, December 13. In 2026, the galleries reopen Monday, January 5.
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The Blackwood is situated on the Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, Seneca, and Huron-Wendat.