26 February to 11 April 2026
Susan Hobbs Gallery, 137 Tecumseth Street, Toronto (Map)

Exhibition opening: Thursday, February 26, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

The research paths veer between multiple characters, some of whom directly exist within the exhibition, while others are absent, replaced by their words. Each of these characters subsists within their own penumbra, exposing a belief system that is otherwise unobvious. First, there is King Camp Gillette, the ultimate Man Corporate and failed utopian socialist. Then there is Kafka, who writes a short, cryptic parable that concedes tradition is not fixed, but rather becomes fortified through changing patterns. Finally, there are images reproduced from a French medical journal, positioning satire as a mechanism for social reform. The works graze one another, as each of the proposed subjects becomes muddled by the next. Elements of one appear in another – a ghosting mimicked through the varying ways we learn, repeat, differentiate, and change in response to the affecting qualities of our surrounding environment.

Read more about the exhibition at the Susan Hobbs Gallery website. 

About the artist

Gareth Long’s work offers space for a constantly movable host of subjects: copying, seriality, amateurism, translation, and collaboration. Within the artist’s diverse practice, these topics are engaged both as thematic concerns and as methods of production. Interested in questioning and dismantling notions of authorship, Long’s work functions to extend and compact, reframe and refabricate grand narrative through processes of reading, re-reading, and misreading.

Long is an assistant professor and the director of the Visual Studies program at the Daniels faculty.