To Reflect Everything by Ryan Van Der Hout

September 12, 2023, to May 20, 2024
Commissioned by the City of Toronto. Presented in partnership with Art Toronto  and United Contemporary 

To Reflect Everything is a monumental sculptural work that investigates the complexities of queer utopia. Inspired by the 1986 Ajisai satellite, the large sphere is adorned with mirror-finished steel panels that both seamlessly and incongruously merge with its surroundings. To Reflect Everything appears poised for departure, as if preparing to transcend earthly boundaries. Reminiscent of a disco ball, the alluring surface invites viewers to delve into the realms of self-reflection and transformation, and to reconsider the urban environment of the TSG through distorted and fractured reflections. Read the exhibition text  by Renata Azevedo Moreira.

About the Artist

Ryan Van Der Hout is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist based in New York City who activates the material processes of making to navigate states of being such as grief, undoing, and queer becoming. His work spans photography, public art and sculpture. Van Der Hout has exhibited at Metropolitan University Gallery, Filter Photo Chicago, Stills Scotland’s Centre for Photography, AGO and Parsons School of Design New York, and commissions include public art for the City of Toronto, Toronto Archives, TTC, OCAD and Pemberton Developments.