Ctrl + Alt + Delete 

June 28 - October 4, 2025

Laura Moore, TL074CN, 2021. Hydrocal gysum cement, gouache and scenic foliage, 3 x 3 x 2.5 inches, courtesy of the artist. Photo credit: LF Documentation.

Digital systems and ecological networks increasingly mirror one another in their complexity and precarity. Data is harvested, systems crash, and both natural and digital worlds share a language of crisis, entropy, and transformation.

Ctrl + Alt + Delete explores these parallels through the work of Laura Moore and Geoffrey Pugen. Working across sculpture, video, textile, and collage, each artist navigates the porous terrain between the organic and the synthetic, revealing how digital environments, like ecosystems, are inhabited, interconnected, and deeply susceptible to collapse. Embedded in their work is a critical reflection on consumer culture—its cycles of innovation, accumulation, and obsolescence—that drives instability in both spheres.

The exhibition also reflects on the human desire to master and control both realms, an impulse increasingly bound to their unraveling. Whether evoking nostalgic technologies or probing predictive systems, Moore and Pugen invite viewers to consider how we archive the present, interpret the past, and envision possible futures amid accelerating digital and environmental shifts.

About the artists:

Geoffrey Pugen is an artist experimenting at the intersection of technology and nature through video, photo and installation. Thematically, Pugen contemplates speculative futures, transhumanism, the impact of nature on society and conflicts between the virtual and the real. His most recent sculptural work integrates video screen technology into architectural forms, creating spatially-synced multi-screen installations. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Transmediale, Berlin, WRO Biennial in Poland,  Bienal De La Imagen En Movimiento, Buenos Aires,  Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Rotterdam Film Festival.  He is a recipient of the K.M Hunter Award for Interdisciplinary Art.

Laura Moore is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in sculpture. Moore works primarily in stone, although her practice extends into drawing, wood working, mould-making and textiles. Notable exhibitions and outdoor public installations include Memories of the Future, a mid-career retrospective solo exhibition at McIntosh Gallery, London, ON (2025), Picture Stones in Bergen, Norway (2024), Love Languages at Art Windsor Essex, Windsor (2024), Erratic Behaviour at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery in Kitchener, Canada (2024), Memory Bathing at OpenArt Biennale, Örbero Sweden (2022), Memory Sticks at Baneheia & Odderøya, Kristiansand, Norway (2022), Replika/Replica at Babel Visningsrom for Kunst, Norway (2017) and Sculpture by the Sea in Aarhus, Denmark (2015). The artist is a transient member of Studio Pescarella in Pietrasanta, Italy and recently attended the USF Verftet residency in Bergen, Norway in 2024. She received an MFA from York University and a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Her work is in the collections of the Royal Bank of Canada, the Bank of Montreal, TD Bank, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, RIMOWA, Bell Canada, The Body Shop and numerous private collections.

Opening Reception: Saturday June 28, 2025 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Panel Discussion: Saturday June 28, 2025 from 1:00pm to 2:00pm