Thresholds of Perception

Where image, memory, and agency intersect.

Toronto | October 23 - 26, 2025

Thresholds of Perception brings together three distinct bodies of work that challenge the limits of seeing, remembering and understanding. Through layered photographic processes, sculptural interventions, and material dislocations, the artists invite viewers to slow, consider, and dwell in newly-articulated visual spaces: those between clarity and distortion, presence and erasure, perception and revelation.Together, these works navigate and give form to interstitial zones-where image, body, memory and agency intersect. Thresholds of Perception asks not just what we see, but how we move through experiences of vision, and under what critical conditions.

Shelagh Howard’s The Secret Keepers traces the hidden terrain of intimate partner abuse through an intentionally arduous, seven-stage process. Integrating long exposures, tintypes, and silver prints, the work holds and mirrors cycles that index those of abuse and survival. What remains visible is as important as what is lost—each obliteration and trace reflecting the erosion and reclamation of self.

The Secret Keepers

In Simulacrum, time becomes elastic. Freestanding wet plate and plexiglass sculptures combine human forms, objects, and scenes in both positive and negative, allowing viewers to move through, around, and within moments, perceptually constructing new ones. Rejecting the “decisive moment,” the work opens a multiplicity of timelines where perception folds into perspective and back again.

Simulacrum

In Distorted Flesh, Sally Buck commits contested botanicals to layered refractions using water, glass, and lenses. Foregrounding the body as both a site of pleasure and a subject of political forces, the project takes its cue from feminist phenomenology. The resulting glitchy imagery—born of light rather than code—resists prescribed objectivity, offering instead a deeply subjective and sensorial field of vision.

Distorted Flesh

Thresholds of Perception

Schedule of Events

Opening NightOctober 236-9 pm
Gallery ViewingOctober 2412-5 pm
Workshop: Looking to SeeOctober 2512-5 pm
Artists in DialogueOctober 2612-5 pm

Gallery Hours
October 23 6-9 pm
October 24 12-5 pm
October 25 12-5 pm
October 26 12-5 pm