Installation view of Ten at Zalucky, with Hudspith’s Vessel of tender hold, a resting place (2025), centred.
Images by Em Moor, courtesy of Zalucky.
Ten
Group exhibition, Zalucky
Toronto, Canada
November 28, 2025 - January 24, 2026
This 10 year anniversary exhibition takes its cue from a 2017 photograph by gallery artist Lee Henderson. In it, a tombstone in northern Scotland worn away by a century’s worth of rain smiles for the camera. Some might find it a grim choice for an anniversary, but it relays our current mood (in a cheeky sort of way) as we look back on a historically challenging decade of programming marked by the global pandemic and its fallout. While the roadblocks were real, we never lost our sense of fortitude and optimism and for that we credit our community - the colleagues who inspire us, the collectors and consultants who champion us and most crucially, the artists who continue to build practices that demand an audience. In an age when the digital reigns supreme and brick-and-mortar galleries are facing increasing headwinds, we find ourselves turning to our artists for purpose, and purpose is what we find.
The 10 artists assembled here–including Pardiss Amerian, Marie-Claire Blais, Lee Henderson, Laura Hudspith, Christof Migone, Philip Leonard Ocampo, Chiedza Pasipanodya, Robert Whibley, and Lan "Florence" Yee–employ the remnants of time and memory for their evocative potency. In gestures both grand and minute, performative and personal, each work offers a moment for pause and reflection. As 2025 winds down and we collectively take stock of the last year, we invite you to do the same.
Laura Hudspith’s work, Vessel of tender hold, a resting place (2025), is the latest to emerge from within an ongoing series of wall-hanging energy collectors. While its sibling, Conduit for the fullness of each moment (2025), shown earlier this year at McBride Contemporain in Montreal, was conceived as a resonator, Vessel of tender hold, a resting place, has a subtler, quieting quality, and creates a point of meditation and deconstitution at the center of the gallery. A near-mirror form rendered in earthy-hued stained glass hangs from a copper arc at the center of the work. Glass and copper charms dangle on either side, talismanic, as though calling forth processes of internal transformation.
Vessel of tender hold, a resting place (2025) Stained glass, solder, copper, chain, 43 x 14.5 x 7.25 inches
Installation view of 10 with Pardiss Amerian’s Fox and Cypress (2025) left; & Laura Hudspith’s Vessel of tender hold, a resting place (2025) right.