Curator: Remco Volmer
November 13, 2025 to February 8, 2026
Opening: Thursday, November 13, 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Joint event with Natasha Mazurka at City Hall Art Gallery.
Event access is limited to the Laurier Avenue after-hours entrance.
And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways invites us to step off the main road of linear time and follow the braided trails of memory, speculation, and myth. Here, the future is a terrain we shape in the present, guided by the ancestral, the intuitive, and the unknown. The works assembled in this exhibition do not simply imagine other worlds: they generate them, pulling from the deep wells of cultural memory and the radical possibilities of science fiction.
- Excerpt by Remco Volmer
Biographies
Remco Volmer is the co-director of Artengine, an artist-run lab for digital culture in Ottawa. His work explores the intersection of art, symbolic systems, and collective meaning-making, often through collaborative research with artists, theorists, and communities. He develops programs and projects that imagine alternatives to extractive systems, challenge dominant narratives, and nurture forms of imaginative resilience.
Rah Eleh(link is external) is a visual artist and PhD candidate at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her work, spanning video, installation, and performance, blends philosophical ideas, parody, and overt allegory. She has been exhibited internationally at venues including the ECC Venice Biennale, Nuit Blanche Toronto, and the National Museum of Norway. She was longlisted for the 2023 Sobey Art Award.
Kite(link is external) aka Dr. Suzanne Kite is an Oglála Lakȟóta performance and visual artist. Her practice integrates Lakota ontologies with computational media, sound and performance, often involving her family and community. Her work investigates Indigenous knowledge systems through technology and art. Kite has presented internationally at the Whitney Museum, Toronto Biennial, and Experimenta Triennial.
Alisha B Wormsley(link is external) is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer whose practice envisions Black and Indigenous matriarchal futures. She is founder of Sibyls Shrine, and creator of There Are Black People in the Future, both focusing on reimagining resource distribution and Black futurism. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and Creative Time Commissioned Artist.
Adrienne Matheuszik(link is external) is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist of Jamaican and settler-Canadian heritage. Working in video, creative coding, 3D design, AR/VR, and interactive installations, her art explores speculative and postcolonial futures through a sci-fi lens. She integrates technology and storytelling to create immersive environments. Her projects often interrogate identity, culture, and digital landscapes in relation to the future.
Komi Olafimihan(link is external) is a Nigerian-Canadian visual artist, poet, and architect whose work blends Afrofuturism with improvisation, collage, and cultural memory. His research on Lagos’ Makoko community shaped his approach to art and design. His poetry and paintings explore African diasporic pride and innovation. His poem Black Bodies earned a Canadian Screen Award in 2021.
Isabella Salas(link is external) and Moisés Horta Valenzuela are Mexico-born artists whose collaboration Indigenous Futurologies examines the collision of ancestral knowledge and machine intelligence. Working with crafted datasets of Mesoamerican heritage, they confront erasure and bias in AI systems while imagining new ways of encoding cultural presence into digital futures.
Kira Xonorika(link is external) (Guaraní) is an interdisciplinary artist and futurist working across AI, film, performance, robotics, and fashion. Her art explores Indigenous technoscience, ecology, and sovereignty, bridging ancestral knowledge with emerging technologies. She has exhibited worldwide, with recent shows at CALARTS REDCAT, the Mercosur Biennial, and Ford Foundation Gallery. She is currently a Fellow at the Vera List Center in New York.