Art Toronto 2025: DISCOVER, presented by RBC
Booth C01
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Duran Contemporain is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Aline Setton at Art Toronto 2025 (Booth C01). Bringing together painting, sculpture, installation, and performance, the presentation reflects Setton's ongoing investigation into transformation, instability, and the dialogue between bodies, pictorial vocabulary and built structures.
At the core of the project are two interdependent works: the large-scale painting In Order to Rise It Will Collapse (2024) and the performance Mimese, presented for the first time in Canada. Both explore the cyclical relationship between construction and dissolution, inviting viewers to consider collapse not as failure but as a generative force. The performance extends the spatial logic of the painting into movement, activating the surrounding sculptural environment and transforming static forms into living gestures.
Around these works, Setton presents new sculptures from the Mimese series (2025), articulated wooden structures that suggest mechanical creatures in perpetual motion, as well as vertical panels such as Pedra, Specks of Light, Plissada, and Moriyama's Red, which merge painting, architecture, and display. A group of ceramic symbols from On the Edge of This World, We Speak a Common Language reflects on communication and ritual as embodied practices. Together, the works form a living architecture in flux, where collapse and emergence coexist as parallel states of being.
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Aline SettonNuance, 2025Acrylique sur toile / Acrylic on canvas55 ⅛ x 36 ⅝ inches
140 x 93 cm -
Aline SettonMirage, 2025Acrylique sur toile / Acrylic on canvas55 ⅛ x 36 ⅝ inches
140 x 93 cm -
Aline SettonIn Order to Rise, it Will Collapse, 2025Acrylique sur toile / Acrylic on canvas55 ⅛ x 59 ⅞ inches
140 x 152 cm -
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Aline Setton10th Symbol, On the edge of this world, we speak a common language, 2025Céramique / Ceramic5 ½ x 4 ⅜ x 2 inches
14 x 11 x 5 cm -
Aline Setton1st Symbol, On the edge of this world, we speak a common language, 2025Céramique / Ceramic10 ⅞ x 5 ⅛ x 2 inches
27.5 x 13 x 5 cm -
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Aline Setton3th Symbol, On the edge of this world, we speak a common language, 2025Céramique / Ceramic5 ⅛ x 6 ¾ x 2 inches
13 x 17 x 5 cm -
Aline Setton10th Symbol, On the edge of this world, we speak a common language, 2025Céramique / Ceramic3 ½ x 3 ½ x 2 inches
9 x 9 x 5 cm -
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Aline SettonMimese series, Criatura (Pequena), 2025Bois et aluminium / Wood and Aluminium55 ⅛ x 10 ¼ x 8 ⅛ inches
140 x 30 x 25 cm
Duran Contemporain at Art Toronto 2025 - Booth C01
Aline Setton at Art Toronto
Duran Contemporain is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Aline Setton at Art Toronto 2025 (Booth C01). Bringing together painting, sculpture, installation, and performance, the presentation reflects Setton's ongoing investigation into transformation, instability, and the dialogue between bodies, pictorial vocabulary and built structures.
At the core of the project are two interdependent works: the large-scale painting In Order to Rise It Will Collapse (2024) and the performance Mimese, presented for the first time in Canada. Both explore the cyclical relationship between construction and dissolution, inviting viewers to consider collapse not as failure but as a generative force. The performance extends the spatial logic of the painting into movement, activating the surrounding sculptural environment and transforming static forms into living gestures.
Around these works, Setton presents new sculptures from the Mimese series (2025), articulated wooden structures that suggest mechanical creatures in perpetual motion, as well as vertical panels such as Pedra, Specks of Light, Plissada, and Moriyama's Red, which merge painting, architecture, and display. A group of ceramic symbols from On the Edge of This World, We Speak a Common Language reflects on communication and ritual as embodied practices. Together, the works form a living architecture in flux, where collapse and emergence coexist as parallel states of being.
Art Toronto 2025
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Booth C01 - Duran Contemporain
October 24-26, 2025 (Preview October 23)
