Concerned by what people are eating today, the Toronto photographer Colwyn Griffith takes a postmodern look at a variety of familiar tourist sites around the world. His work, which has the look of commercial photography not unlike that found in brochures promoting these pilgrimage sites, invites us to make connections between ideas around food and our sense of territory. The frenzied pace of consumer society is matched by an increasingly less natural environment, which Griffith reveals in the form of landscapes he recreates using the sort of industrial foodstuffs found in fast food. The selection of these landscapes exhibited at EXPRESSION includes work chosen for its historical, political or cultural significance. To complement these works there will be an exhibition in the small gallery of a series of photographs by the artist on the architecture of fast food restaurants.

Public talk by Colwyn Griffith on August 21, 2010 at 2:00 pm.
Opening on August 20, at 3:00 pm.

With a touch of irony and humour, the Montreal artist Patrick Bérubé, who was born in Rimouski, enquires into our behaviour and reactions towards various kinds of threats and powerlessness. By joining images and objects in his photographs and writings, Bérubé's work highlights our vulnerability to these little annoyances and the grief they cause us. As harmless as they often are, they can be so very upsetting! The artist also examines our constant quest for power, control, security and comfort, contriving to demonstrate that despite all these precautions some things remain unavoidable, making us vulnerable to and victims of our own fears and desires and the futility of things. This exhibition of Bérubé's work at EXPRESSION includes pieces created over the past ten years and new, previously unseen works which take up the theme of ambition and hopes, wealth and pleasure, along with the loss of identity and weakness.

Thèrese Chabot lives in the Montérégie region of Quebec and is best known for her large, ephemeral installations of colourful dried flowers. In addition to the flowers in these installations, Chabot uses a variety of techniques in her work, including writing, drawing, engraving and photography. More recently, she has re-introduced sculpture to her work, this time employing white porcelain. Her work makes abundant reference to art history, with a touch of poetry and humour. This exhibition of Chabot's work at EXPRESSION covers her thirty-year career and takes up the themes most dear to her, including the search for identity, spiritual quests, the life cycle, the beauty cycle and ageing.

Ana Rewakowicz, a Polish-born Montreal artist, combines the pleasure of the balloons which illuminate festive evenings with the stirring futurism of portable habitats by creating inflatable sculptures which become interchangeable environments. In contrast to the stability of monumental sculpture and unalterable architecture, her clothing and structures are air-filled forms of mobile art which seek out places and people likely to activate them.

Juste une image,the Emmanuelle Léonard exhibition at Expression, juxtaposes two new video works, La Déposition and Le Polygraphe, along with selected photographs and a video produced since 2003. It is curated by Nicole Gingras.