PPeep Show: Parallel loops, Porous lines, Mar 9 - May 22 2026

FOFA Gallery, 515 Rue Sainte-Catherine O, Montréal, QC

Materials: Pine, plywood, natural latex sheeting, wool, upcycled construction materials

Photography: Laurence Poirier

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Peepholes and a motion responsive video reveal sites where limbs merge and layer with the materials that construct and reconstruct Montréal’s body. The construction site—a location where workers structurally transform a body of land and/or the matter that sits beneath it and/or above it—is layered with the human body, itself another site of change. An uneasy kinship emerges between two transforming bodies, where the systems of control, value, and normativity that intertwine in both human and city bodies converge and, sometimes, rupture. These points of overlap hold potential energy, but without direction, disruption risks repeating the very ideals it has the capacity to unsettle.

New construction materials and site footage are recontextualized through the visual language of a peep show, relocating these signifiers of change into an erotic register. Dislocating the construction site from its naturalized position of perpetually reproducing existing systems of control opens up space for a still unknown something-else to emerge through disturbance: a coalition of changing bodies and sites that push through the barriers of wall and window, inviting you to come closer. 

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Acknowledgements:

With thanks to the technicians who have contributed to the development of this project including: Elio Bidinost (Sensor Lab), Allison Higgins, Chris Latchem, Tom Simpkins, and Elizabeth Xu (Woodshop), Jules Beauchamp Desbiens and Léah Bellefleur Gauthier (Digital Fabrication Lab), and the Centre for Digital Arts team. Thank you also to colleagues Marius Gnanasihamany, Hailey Guzik, and Pauline Lomami for their input and support.

This project was made possible through the support of: