Distance is a group exhibition bringing together Franco-Ontarian artists, presented in Windsor after an opening as part of AWE at Night.
Co-curated by Dyana Ouvrard and Marc Audette, the exhibition brings together works by Lise Beaudry, Emilio Portal, and Samuel Choisy, which show how distance, in all its forms, becomes both material and a subject of inquiry.
Beyond simple physical measurements, this distance encompasses emotional, cultural, and social separations. It inhabits the “in-between,” that interstice where absence and potentiality intersect—an space to be reinvented in the wake of post-pandemic horizons. The landscape then becomes a mirror of our renewed ways of seeing, feeling, and acting in the face of a transformed world.
The artists’ practices offer three distinct perspectives on this experience. Lise Beaudry reveals silent structures in which subtle phenomena illuminate the complexity of our connections to the world and to our histories. Emilio Portal transforms sound and matter into a space of wonder, invoking the living in its sensory dimensions. Samuel Choisy, for his part, explores the tension between presence and absence, light and darkness, interior and exterior, inviting an intimate reflection on our relationship to the other. The event was also the subject of coverage by Art Windsor-Essex, offering a complementary perspective on the exhibition.
This exhibition contributes to the dissemination of Franco-Ontarian artistic practices in new contexts, while opening a space for dialogue between territories, disciplines, and sensibilities.
