Stephen Andrews and Lisa Steele/Kim Tomcsak at Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris

The Centre Culturel Canadien in Paris presented two concurrent exhibitions featuring Toronto-based artists. Stephen Andrews' show, curated by Bill Huffman, displayed wall-mounted vertical bands resembling unspooled Super 8 film, fragmented into photograms. The sequences, often depicting anonymous crowds, shift when photograms are bleached by light or appear to burn—one scene shows a circus tent ablaze causing panic. Despite appearances, these works are not filmic but created using sgraffito and photocopy transfer. Andrews also exhibited paintings that mimic silkscreen, with each dot hand-painted, referencing Alain Jacquet and Dalí's Portrait of My Dead Brother (1963). The second exhibition featured Lisa Steele and Kim Tomcsak's The Blood Records, a hybrid fiction-documentary. Black-and-white photos and a film recount a Canadian sanatorium in the 1940s, using archival footage interspersed with contemporary shots. The propaganda-style narrative celebrates the fight against tuberculosis but omits the human cost: patients were deprived of liberty for months or years. One poignant photo shows a child strapped into a device resembling a torture instrument, evoking medical experimentation rather than altruistic therapy.