A VULNERABLE EXISTENCE creates a visual dialogue between figure and ground using photographs of statues, taken throughout the city of Toronto, Canada, which are then placed by the artist within images of decaying environments. Ayokah’s photos of public sculptures, demolition sites and weathered back alleys come into relationship with each other through collage, the surroundings echoing the colour and gesture of the sculpted forms.


The intricacy of collage does not usually lend itself to many hands. Sharing a vision in this medium is new territory, especially when working with someone you know beyond an artistic relationship. The collaboration with deborah harris, who is artist-in-residence at Gallery Arcturus as well as Ayokah’s mother.