Cycles of Entanglement is a group exhibition presenting recent works by students from the 2024 graduating class of the University of Toronto Mississauga and Sheridan College joint Art & Art History program. Curated by the students of FAH451: Curating Now, the exhibition features a diverse range of artworks, including paintings, photographs, sculptures, and prints. Together, the works in this exhibition engage with the repetition and contrast among the patterns inherent in our lives and surroundings, as well as our physical and emotional selves that result from our actions and choices. 

Our worlds are thoroughly connected, resulting in an entanglement with one another. Sometimes, the connections are apparent, such as the cycle of life and death. Other cycles perhaps are less so, such as objects that move through cycles of consumption, sustained by desires for progress. The human body, too, is moving through a series of emotions as it passes through days, weeks, months, and years. Across the artworks, several artists reflect on themes of death, anxiety, and pain, while others create work that reveals autobiographical details, such as their hobbies and interests. Some artists in this exhibition explore the impact of certain emotional periods that have changed the course of their lives. These resonances reveal processes of healing, which some artists understand through material exploration, just as others consider the human impact of the passage of time on natural systems. In this exhibition, the theme of repetition is reflected in the process of art making as well as the subjects that the artists choose to explore.   

How can we be more responsible to one other? How can we be better aware of the consequences and influences of our actions? This exhibition invites reflections on cycles in our lives and to consider how our own choices and actions entangle us, realizing that no action is isolated, no matter how big or small it may be. Through this exhibition, we hope visitors will come to realize that part of human nature is living with changes, accepting that patterns may recur and cycles will continue to transform us as we grow.