FLOWCHANGE

Presented by The Collective City Gallery Project

FLOWCHANGE

Curated by Sky Fine Foods

February 19 – March 1, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, February 20, 6 – 9pm
Dupont Rail Gallery, Toronto

Collective City Arts is proud to present FLOWCHANGE, an exhibition curated by Sky Fine Foods that features eight artists, on view from February 19 to March 1 at Dupont Rail Gallery. The exhibition is the second of eight shows being hosted in the 2026 season by the Collective City Arts Gallery Project.

FLOWCHANGE is a group exhibition that unfolds as a mixed-reality biome, where distinctions between the real and the rendered begin to blur. In the exhibition, nature is not something to be recovered or restored, but something continuously re-authored through technology, imagination, and lived experience.

Bringing together Toronto-based artists Alex McLeod, Laura Kay Keeling, Diana Lynn VanderMeulen, Sabrina Ratté, Willy Le Maitre, Ali Phi, Quinn Hopkins, and Amanda Amour-Lynx, FLOWCHANGE presents new works that explore how immersive media, projection, extended reality, data, and digital materiality can reshape our understanding of ecology, memory, and presence.

Informed by personal reference points and frameworks of the sublime and phenomenology, this series considers how listening, musical structures, and sensory dissonance shape human connection.

Sabrina Ratté

Across the exhibition, digital environments feel inhabitable and intimate rather than representational. Alex McLeod approaches simulated space through the perspective of the non-player character, foregrounding overlooked viewpoints and ambient agency within constructed worlds.

Laura Kay Keeling recomposes fragments of the natural and domestic through collage, to form ecosystems shaped by augmentation, play, colour, and accumulation. Diana Lynn VanderMeulen extends spatial sensibility through sculptural video works as atmospheric environments where light, water, and air exist in constant transition.

A positioning of environment and transformation continues in Sabrina Ratté’s PHARMAKON, an interactive installation in which a printed herbarium becomes a gateway to a liminal virtual garden. Drawing from speculative ecology, natural sciences, and occult traditions, the work explores the unstable boundary between remedy and poison. Willy Le Maitre engages immersion through a new virtual reality work from his ongoing investigation of the inhabited image, situating participants within a fragmented panoramic landscape at the surface of the Humber River, where physical surroundings bleed into recorded nature through shifting light and spatial sound.

Moving from landscape to memory and identity, Ali Phi works with data-driven memory visualization, translating personal and collective data into immersive visual and sonic forms that reflect on how memory is stored, abstracted, and re-experienced through digital systems.

Quinn Hopkins bridges Indigenous futurism and extended reality through tactile, motion-activated works that weave ancestral knowledge with contemporary technology, activating digital space as a living, responsive environment. Amanda Amour-Lynx leads the exhibition toward care and relationality, engaging speculative digital forms through practices grounded in kinship, softness, and collective nurturing.

Rather than resolving the relationship between nature and technology, FLOWCHANGE holds them together as a shared terrain. The exhibition invites viewers to slow down, linger, and feel through shifting ecologies where perception softens, time stretches, and care emerges as a collective practice.

Laura Kay Keeling

Collective City Gallery Project | Upcoming Exhibitions

Jes Young: Single Serve
March 25 – April 5, 2026

Single Serve is an installation celebrating things we hold sacred in our normal routines—from essentials to vices—the things we buy, use, and then immediately discard, allowing for urban wildlife to discover and thrive.

Orest Tataryn: Bright Lights
Curated by Lois Andison
May 20 – May 31, 2026

A colourist at heart, Orest’s signature works are colour studies that combine mathematics with pattern, abstraction, and the precise placement, proportions, and relationships of chroma. His process often involves cutting sections of glass tube (some phosphor-coated and uncoated coloured glass), then fusing the different sections, then repeating this technique with minor variations over several tubes to create a colour field.

About The Collective City Gallery Project

The Gallery Project will stage eight shows during the 2026 season that will feature the work of independent artists, arts collectives, and curators not represented by a commercial gallery or institution in the Greater Toronto Region to showcase their work at no cost.

The Project aims to make the shows accessible to as broad a public as possible, allowing Collective City Arts to provide a public service to the community, a model for which does not otherwise currently exist In Toronto. For more information about the Collective City Arts Gallery Project visit The Gallery Project.

To learn more about Collective City Arts, visit www.collectivecity.ca.

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Dupont Rail Gallery
1444 Dupont Street, Unit 10
Toronto, ON M6P 4H3

Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 12 – 5pm
For private appointments, please contact info@skyfinefoods.com

Accessibility: Dupont Rail Gallery is fully accessible. For more information, visit Dupont Rail Gallery.