Exiting the Castle

Solo exhibition at Gallery 44, Toronto.

Stars, green screens, butterflies, princesses, fruit, magic and candy: within an absurd and colourful landscape, objects are blown up larger-than-life, surfaces condense repeatedly and documentary and constructed imagery co-exist and collide. Through photography, video and sculpture, Exiting the Castle extends Doucet’s ongoing project exploring illness, fantasy and wish fulfillment through the lens of her own experience receiving a wish trip to Disney World as a child, following two years of treatment for Lymphoma. In this iteration, Doucet focuses on wishmaking as brand identity, exploring the many ways corporate visual languages co-opt the universal—and potentially radical—gesture of making a wish.
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For more information read, H(anna)h’s Extra-Reality to Hyper-Reality, an exhibition essay by curator, translator and guest writer Yan Wu.

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Exhibition Documentation by Darren Rigo.