Looking forward to curating collage for Collections Count + Care at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. So grateful for the mentorship of Alicia Boutilier.

September 20 - October 2, 2022

General Idea
Canadian, active Toronto ON 1969–1994

Borderline Case: Five – The Great Divide, 1972
Screenprint on paper with postcard applique, 3/80

Borderline Case: Nine – Consummation, 1972
Screenprint on paper, 34/50

Richard Ibghy, Marilou Lemmens

Montreal QC 1964, Ascot Corner QC 1976

Paid, Unpaid, Personal and Free Time Across Countries
Schlumberger HSE Lagging Indicators
The Self-Perspective and the Other Perspective
(from the What We Know for Sure series), 2017–2018
Collage, coloured paper and ink on paper

Marcia Herscovitz
American, 1945–1976
Seven of Ten Collages (from S.M.S. No. 2), 1968
Photocollage on paper, edition of 40, The Letter Edged in Black Press, New York

With Count + Care, we lovingly turn our attention to the collection. Over 17,000 works of art and culture are housed at Agnes. And in June, we begin to pack that collection in preparation for the building of Agnes Reimagined, our new future-oriented facility. As we pack, we take stock, and consider what it means to care for and be accountable to a public collection. Curated works in twos and threes hold space, or “take the stage,” for biweekly intervals, as we say goodbye to them temporarily. In the process, we bring stewardship forward to the gallery from back of house.

Count + Care seeks relationships within and conversations across the collection at Agnes and acts as a revolving access point through which to reflect on legacies of collecting, of holding but also homing. These works find themselves here through various means, whether a purchase, donation or transfer, tracing histories of artistic practice and curatorial priorities. Through inventory, Count + Care looks at what has been collected at Agnes and infers what should be collected in addition. The project not only revisits the well-known but also reveals the under-recognized in Agnes’s collection, those who may not yet have had an opportunity to speak through or about their collectivity. What stories do they tell? Come hear what the collection has to say.