Thomas Demand: House of Card, is an exhibition on view at MOCA Toronto. The show includes works by internationally renowned photographer and sculptor Thomas Demand and other influential artists, architects and designers including Martin Boyce, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Caruso St John Architects, spanning all three floors of the Museum.

Thomas Demand is well-known for large-scale photographs of 3-D models that replicate notorious or familiar scenes, which he creates from paper and cardboard. After photographing them, he destroys the models. House of Card refers to the precariousness of Thomas Demand’s practice as a builder. The exhibition features a selection of Demand’s large-scale photographs, with emphasis on his exploration into architecture, model making and collaborative processes.

Alongside House of Card, visitors will experience Kelly Jazvac: Time Scale in the North End Gallery, a new sound commission by British-Egyptian musician and artist Sarah Badr in the South Stairwell, and more.

Kelly Jazvac makes artworks out of discarded billboards sourced from the urban advertising industry. Her focus on recycling, questions how we produce and exhibit contemporary art, and advocates for more sustainable practices. At MOCA, Jazvac presents a site-specific installation composed of a variety of two-dimensional adverts sculpted to propose new imagery and language, reforming space. Her exhibition Time Scale creates a hub for conversations and participatory activities that focus on our relationship with images, consumerism and plastics.

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Image: Thomas Demand, towhee, 2020. Framed pigment print, 135 x 172 cm. Courtesy of Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery / Galerie Sprüth Magers / Esther Schipper.