MUSEUM IN WATER (ICED) by Paola Poletto opens January 27
In MUSEUM IN WATER (ICED), photographs “glitch” the landscape as a liberatory gesture. Using vignettes drawn from her 12-year experience as an artist-worker in one of Canada ’ s leading contemporary art museums, Poletto explores and extends the perceptions she has gained by pairing images from two sites—one site embodies her as practicing artist, and the other as museum worker. Each is respectively represented by her use of Toronto’s civic reflecting pool at Mel Lastman Square located near her home, and by her reimagining AGO’s Walker Court as a “professional” reflective pool. Works are in the main vitrine and annex galleries. Image: "Escape" colour photograph (2025)