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1. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Anne-Marie Dubois

   The Threshold of the Self: Grant Heaps at… - Esse - Art (opens the original)

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   Over the last three decades, Heaps has facilitated the creation of theatrical personas as a member of the National Ballet of Canada’s wardrobe department, but in this exhibition he strips away the artifice of the stage to address the raw vulnerability of the private self. By salvaging textile remnants from his career and personal life, he engages in a form of material archiving, in which every frayed edge functions as a mnemonic trigger, allowing him to look at his work and remember where he a

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2. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Anne-Marie Dubois

   Anicka Yi Message from the Mud - Compte rendu - Esse - Art (opens the original)

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   Near the South Ponds, Yi has carved an amphitheatre-like enclosure into the ground, recalling the ancient spaces that shaped attention into collective ritual. At its centre, spectacle passes from human actors to molecular nature. From a shallow pool rise twenty Winogradsky columns filled with soil, pond water, egg yolk, and organic matter taken from Storm King, incubating micro-ecosystems of algae and microbial colonies. Their contents stratify into abstract marblings of yellowish green, brown,

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