Join us in celebrating Gallery 44's fall exhibitions opening in all four galleries!
In the Main Gallery, Static and Noise explores sonic representations in photography and image arts, delving into the relationship between sound and image degeneration through reproduction, and how image noise is conceptually equivalent to audio noise. Drawn from the visual culture of punk, noise and DIY music-scenes, the exhibition will focus on the intentional manipulation of visual and sonic data to create chaotic, distorted or muddy aesthetics. This exhibition is part of a larger fall program at Gallery 44 exploring performance, sound and the limits of visual perception in relation to image-based practices.
In the Vitrines, body — mind — distance explores the tension between how diasporic bodies are perceived in different contexts, serving as a visual manifestation of the psychic distance between body and memory. Vachon explores the friction that occurs when the way one perceives themselves contradicts how one is perceived in unfamiliar landscapes. Exploring cultural beauty standards, out of body experiences and fragmented selves, Vachon highlights how the body is simultaneously shaped by cultural conventions and more local, intrapersonal realities.
In the Members' Gallery, From the Laurentian Highlands to a Higher Place documents artist WOO SEE-MING pilgrimage to the Laurentian Highlands of Quebec, shortly after his mother’s funeral. It was there that his mother took up waitressing in the late 1950's—photos taken in and around these sites in 2025 by WOO serve as the foundation of this exhibition, where time, sadness, love and joy collapse into one.
In in the Production Gallery, boxing photographer Pete Doherty reassembles a life altered by illness and loss in Northumberland. After his father suffered a debilitating stroke and his mother was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer, Doherty tried desperately to hold on to what he had. Northumberland depicts being alive in a world where loved ones are suddenly gone.
