Greater Toronto Art 2024

Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada

- Xenia Benivolski

Whenever I see one of Catherine Telford Keough’s sculptures, I’m reminded of half-melted heaps of snow, embedded with various lost items they’ve accrued during the long winter months: candy bars, pills, bottle caps and gum wrappers suspended in the frozen mass. Her evocative installation, Carriers (Gravity-Fed) (2024), sits nicely alongside works whose material explorations provoke a similar sense of melancholy: Jes Fan’s Interface I and Interface II (both 2024), the soy skins of which seem to melt off their supports, and Lotus L. Kang’s shed (Receiver Transmitter (Butterfly), 2023–24), in which rolled up prints and neatly folded mats gesture at an absence. All three artists have left Toronto for New York in recent years.