Every summer, the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair transforms Nathan Phillips Square into a vast landscape of contemporary creation.
Over four hundred artists present their works there, making the fair a true open-air laboratory where emerging practices, established approaches, and spontaneous conversations intersect.
For Le Labo, this flânerie has become an end-of-season tradition. Rather than a guided tour in the traditional sense, Le Labo offers a collective walk where observation, curiosity, and exchanges take precedence over a fixed itinerary.
Accompanied by Dyana Ouvrard, exhibition curator and Executive and Artistic Director of Le Labo, participants will be invited to slow down, take the time to observe, and linger over a few selected works along the way. The selection will particularly highlight Francophone artists or those whose practice resonates with Le Labo’s topics: territory, memory, materiality, experimentation, and relationships with public space.
Encounters, detours, and even chance will be an integral part of the experience. A discussion with an artist, a work spotted around a corner, or a shared intuition could alter the path.
Bring your water bottle, hat, and curiosity. For the rest, we will let the artworks… and the encounters guide us.
Meet at the info point.
Register via the free registration link.
About the Curator
Dyana Ouvrard
Dyana Ouvrard is the Executive and Artistic Director of Le Labo, a Francophone artist-run centre in Toronto dedicated to media arts. With a background in geography and performing arts administration in Paris (France), she has been active in the visual arts in Ontario since 2015 and develops a curatorial practice focused on territory, walking, and slowing down. She recently co-curated Distance (Art Windsor-Essex, 2025) and led projects such as 6 degrees, narrative territories (Nuit Blanche Toronto, 2023) and Cartographic Deviations (Voix Visuelle, 2025). She also pursues research on landscape, listening, and eco-responsibility, paying particular attention to the creation of welcoming and accessible spaces, inspired by the “micro” and the DIY spirit.
