Arrivals and Departures 

A Sound Installation in Two Parts

April 1 to July 15, 2023 — YYZ Artists’ Outlet

Arrivals and Departures was a curatorial experimentation that spanned the three exhibition spaces of YYZ Artists’ Outlet. As curator, Heather Nicol asked artists to offer their work to be transformed and re-interpreted by her own sound and sculptural elements. Nicol’s practice formed layers of connective tissue across the work of other artists, allowing the pieces to bleed into each other from room to room. This fostered new forms of collaboration, creating an opportunity for artists and audiences to contemplate boundaries, creative authorship, and exchange. 

In broad terms, the contributing artists examined transitional moments of arrivals, while Nicol explored departure. The exhibit centred themes of dislocation and relocation, proposing that each day is a flow of movements and discoveries, entrances and exits. Through photography, sculpture, film, and sound art, the artists variously considered life as a series of ever evolving arrivals and departures, right up until our unknowable final exit.