From the shards, we build landscapes (2nd Edition: Tender)

Fall/Winter 2026 Exhibition at Industrial Arts

Aline Setton and Camila Bardehle, Intervals to see the landscape, 2024, construction debris netting and sheetrock, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artists.

From the shards, we build landscapes (2nd Edition: Tender)

Artists: Camila Bardehle, Kristi Chen, Martina Miño Perez, Alison Postma, Julia Retz, Aline Setton, Caro Simon, Aysia Tse

Curator: Yuluo Wei

October 3 – December 20, 2026
Industrial Arts, 7441 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 8, Markham
Free onsite parking | Exhibition hours: Friday – Sunday, 12–4pm, and weekdays by appointment

Opening Reception & Mimese Performance by Aline Setton
Saturday, October 3, 2026, 1–3pm | Performance, 2pm

Statement

On a construction site, concrete is poured, rebar is laid into foundations. These materials are measured by the ton and handled by the hour, hauled and dropped. No one stops to look at them.

In property management and development, a tender is a bid to build. The industry is male-dominated, and defined by large-scale, heavy materials and an emphasis around safety and efficiency. The artists in this exhibition by contrast, are all women, non-binary, or gender dissident, and bring a level of tenderness rarely, if ever seen in the industrial realm: they study the relationship between body and built space, working intentionally with materials including concrete, wood, or rubber at both a micro and macro scale. What once held up a foundation stands at shoulder height. A piece that might have filled a wall, fits inside two hands.

Tender is also a material property: something tender holds the impression of whatever touched it. These artists work slowly enough that every work in the room carries the mark of how it was handled.

The exhibition space, at Industrial Arts, carries its own past. Concrete floors, raw walls, the wear of years of industry. The work sits inside a building made from the same materials, in the same place, at a different speed and time. The building was originally built without pause. And a pause is now what makes the work possible.

From the shards, we build landscapes originated at Quase Espaço in São Paulo in 2024, organized by artists Aline Setton and Camila Bardehle.

Aline Setton, Mimese, video still. Courtesy of the artist.

About the Artists

Camila Bardehle Ruiz (b. 1989, Punta Arenas) is from Chilean Patagonia and works in São Paulo, across painting, installation, sculpture, photography and video. Her subject is territory and memory: how a place is perceived, lived in and changed over time. She studied visual arts at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and has held residencies in Chile, Argentina and Brazil.

Kristi Chen is an interdisciplinary artist based in T’karonto (Toronto) by rediscovering lost and fading ancient craft practices. Her practice is based on her turbulent relocation experience shaping her understanding of belonging amid complex cultural influences. Through her works, she explores the complexities of her ancestral history, connecting it with her own diasporic experience across shifting environments.

Martina Miño Pérez (b. 1990, Quito) makes sculpture and installation meant to be tasted, smelled and touched. She works with fermentation, maceration and distillation, and with resin, metal, stone, wax and gelatin, borrowing technique from culinary science. She won the V Premio Brasil Edition for Ecuadorian Contemporary Art and was in residence at Pivô Arte e Pesquisa, São Paulo.

Alison Postma works in Toronto with photography, video, sculpture and, lately, furniture, building from found objects set against one another. They studied at the University of Guelph and Sheridan College’s furniture design program (2024), and held the 2019 Reclaim Residency at a Haliburton landfill. In 2020 they won the Emerging Digital Artists Award and cofounded the plumb, an artist-run gallery.

Julia Retz is a Brazilian artist and designer in São Paulo who makes furniture and treats architecture as a research field. She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, and the Sandberg Institute, and is completing an MA at USP. She has public commissions in Rio de Janeiro and Tallinn, and solo shows in Amsterdam and Tokyo.

Aline Setton is a Brazilian artist living between São Paulo and Toronto. She trained in architecture and urbanism, then cinematography and studio art in California, and builds labyrinthine compositions where several things happen at once. In 2025 she showed a solo project with Duran Contemporain in Art Toronto’s Discover section and was in Tropi-X at the Museum of London, Canada.

Caro Simon (b. 1997) is from Belgium and Luxembourg and works in T’karonto (Toronto) in sculpture and installation, poetry, printmaking and analog photography. They make large-scale sculpture that treats industrial objects as things to be cared for collectively, and work from the material memory that post-industrial cities hold in common. Their work runs between gentle play and hostility.

Aysia Tse is a Singaporean-born artist in Toronto, making movement-based work, performance and multimedia installation around madness, queerness and mixed diasporic identity. She is also a competitive artistic swimmer and lead coach at the Toronto Artistic Swimming Club, and that background feeds her practice.

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Accessibility: The entry is free and the space is accessible through the receiving door. Washrooms are not accessible.

Industrial Arts is a 5-acre site comprising multiple industrial units in Markham, hosting tenants involved in light manufacturing processes. Home to Steelcase Art Projects, we are a social enterprise that supports artists by providing affordable studios, commissions, acquisitions, collaborations, mentorship, business advice and other opportunities alongside industrial businesses. Industrial Arts is Markham’s Creative Heart.

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