Wonderlust

This publication accompanies the exhibition Wonderlust, the 2024 Studio Art Graduating Exhibition presented at the Doris McCarthy Gallery, produced by students in the upper-year U of T Scarborough Studio Art course VPSD56, with instructors Hadley Howes and Will Kwan. Wonderlust is a minor but potent détournement that captures the desire to embrace the uncertain and the unfamiliar through imagination, inquiry, and encounter. The artworks in the exhibition probe the idea of wonder in diverse ways asking: can the digital re-enchant the everyday? What does AI have to teach us about the inexplicable? How does memory, forgetting, and tradition shape the future of families, diasporas, and other collectivities? For the artists in Wonderlust, curiosity forges the path through real and fantastical topographies of mortality, displacement, belonging, crisis, and social transformation.

The publication includes artist statements, images, and an introduction by Hadley Howes and Will Kwan.