Jasmine Cardenas, Ella Gonzales, Magalie Guérin, HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander, Jeremy Laing, Jérôme Nadeau, Tony Romano
A Rhythm, Not a Plot
January 13 to February 19, 2022
Galerie Nicolas Robert Toronto is pleased to present A Rhythm, Not A Plot, a collective exhibition with works by Jasmine Cardenas, Ella Gonzales, HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander, Magalie Guérin, Jeremy Laing, Jérôme Nadeau, and Tony Romano. The works in this exhibition take their cue from a broad range of subject matter, including personal narratives of migration, a wrestling with history and tradition, and an interrogation of architectures, display techniques and modes of production. Each piece communicates through an aesthetic and intellectual connection to material, resulting in formal continuities that establish the basis for a distinct visual flow. Venturing away from an authoritative curatorial voice and acting instead as a model for building relationships, A Rhythm, Not A Plot asks its audience to uncover their own internal logic to an unusual dialogue that is as concrete as it is undetermined.
Galerie Nicolas Robert would like to thank the Agnes Etherington Art Centre and Franz Kaka Gallery for their collaboration with this exhibition.
A Rhythm, Not A Plot takes its title from a correspondence between Virginia Woolf and the composer Ethel Smyth, where Woolf describes her method as follows: “I think then that my difficulty is that I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot. Does this convey anything? And thus, though the rhythmical is more natural to me than the narrative, it is completely opposed to the tradition of fiction and I am casting about all the time for some rope to throw to the reader.” (Virginia Woolf, A Reflection of the Other Person: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol 4: 1929–31, Hogarth Press, London, 1978, pp. 204).
