21 WADE AVE #2 | TORONTO
Slip, Stitch
25 Jun - 5 Sept 2026
Featuring works by:
Muriel Ahmarani Jaouich, Holly Chang, Malik McKoy, Laila Mestari, Justin Ming Yong, Jess Riva Cooper & Swapnaa Tamhane.
Slip, Stitch gathers artists whose practices embrace acts of joining, layering, and grafting. Slip holds both material and gesture: liquid clay, a plant cutting, a movement between states, something that binds even as it shifts and transforms. Paired with stitch, it suggests forms of repair and connection that are never fixed, always in process.
Rooted in reflections on growth and propagation, cultural heritage, and belonging, the exhibition traces the threads that bind us to one another and to the worlds we inhabit. Through acts of care and exchange, new forms emerge at the seams.
Muriel Ahmarani Jaouich is a Canadian artist of Armenian, Egyptian, and Lebanese descent based in Tiohtià/Montréal, Canada. Through painting, Ahmarani Jaouich explores genealogy, intergenerational trauma, historical violence, and ancestral grief, drawing from oral histories, photographic archives, and inherited objects to consider how family histories of diaspora, immigration, and genocide move between memory and imagination. Ahmarani Jaouich has exhibited at venues including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Patel Brown, CLARK Centre, articule, Printemps du MAC, and Arsenal New York. She has received recognition through the Lilian Vineberg Scholarship, Merit Scholarship, and Tom Hopkins Memorial Award.
Holly Chang is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada, working across photography, ceramics, textiles, sculpture, natural dyeing, collage, and installation. Drawing from found and discarded textiles, archives, and images, Chang repurposes materials to explore identity, hybridity, transformation, race, gender, ecology, history, and alternative ways of existing. Chang has exhibited at venues including The Image Centre, Centre[3], Blouin Division Gallery, Gallery 44, Patel Brown, the Art Gallery of Guelph, Gallery TPW, Zalucky Contemporary, Workers Arts and Heritage Centre, Xpace Cultural Centre, and Centre Engramme. Chang holds an MA in Communication and Culture from York University/Toronto Metropolitan University and a BA in Creative Industries from Toronto Metropolitan University.
Malik McKoy is a multidisciplinary artist based in Montréal, Canada, working across painting and digital media. Drawing from the banality of suburban life and personal anecdote, McKoy creates visual worlds in which ordinary scenes carry a sense of unease, tension, and the uncanny. McKoy recently exhibited his project sixtwosix at Maison de la Culture, Montréal, and has shown at venues including Patel Brown, Susan Hobbs Gallery, and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery. He was awarded the Canada Council for the Arts Concept to Realization grant and has participated in residencies including CO/CREATE, Hypercity, and the RBC Emerging Artist Program. McKoy is currently pursuing an MFA at Concordia University.
Laïla Mestari is a Moroccan-born artist based in Montréal, Canada, working across textiles, drawing, video, and print media. Anchored in collage and assemblage, Mestari’s practice explores cultural and material hybridity, rerooting, and expressions of Québécois and Maghrebi identity through surreal compositions of domestic objects, cultural icons, displaced figures, and elements of the land. Mestari holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received the Joan Livingstone Merit Scholarship, and has exhibited at venues including the UCLA New Wight Biennial, John David Mooney Foundation, Images Festival, Espacio Pinea, VU, Dazibao, Projet Casa, Art Mûr, and La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse. Her work is held in the collections of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, and the Canada Council Art Bank.
Justin Ming Yong is a Toronto-based artist whose quiltmaking practice explores an unconventional, modern approach to this art form. In 2023, Yong had a solo exhibition at the National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY and he was part of group shows at Cambridge Art Galleries, the Art Gallery of Guelph and the Plumb, Toronto. His recent press includes features in The Globe and Mail, Designlinesmagazine, Insight magazine by Sotheby’s, Sharp magazine, Toronto Life, and Canadian Quilter. He has been invited to host workshops with numerous quilt guilds and was a guest panelist during Toronto Design Week at the Ace Hotel.
Jess Riva Cooper is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist working across clay, drawing, found materials, sculpture, and installation. Her practice explores mythology, ecology, transformation, and the relationship between human and botanical forms, creating hybrid structures that evoke vulnerability, persistence, growth, decay, and renewal. Cooper holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been shaped by residencies at Medalta, the Archie Bray Foundation, Lillstreet Art Center, and the John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program, and has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Gardiner Museum in Toronto and Cynthia Corbett Gallery in London.
Swapnaa Tamhane is a Toronto-born, Montréal-based artist working across drawing, handmade paper, textiles, and the material histories of cotton and jute. Her practice engages feminist histories in India and the South Asian diaspora through art-making, curatorial research, and material culture. Tamhane holds an MFA in Fibres & Material Practices from Concordia University and has exhibited at venues including Green Art Gallery, Nature Morte, articule, Sculpture Park Jaipur, the Victoria & Albert Museum Dundee, the Royal Ontario Museum, and Surrey Art Gallery. She was shortlisted for the 2025 Sobey Art Award and is the Mittal Institute’s 2026 South Asian Arts Fellow at Harvard University.