//nov 10–15 · 2026 · the show gallery · 978 queen st w
Source Resolution
Régis Souto & Patrick Stevens
//01 — source resolution (n.)
The pixel count of the original file: the image as it was first made, before anything is stretched, compressed or converted. Push a picture past it and it starts to break into its parts.
Source Resolution brings together two artists working on either side of that breaking point. Patrick Stevens builds images out of the screen: digital manipulation, abstraction, colour turned up past comfort. Régis Souto builds them out of matter: heavily textured gesso, layers of coloured pencil, gouache, acrylic and marker, and oil as the final skin.
Their shared unit is the square, the pixel in one practice and the canvas in the other. Their shared question: what is the original? A file, a body, a self.
//02 — régis souto · painting
How many of you live in one body?
There is the you who goes to work. The you who makes something of your own. The you inside a relationship, and the you among friends. None of them is the false one, and all of them live in the same body.
In these paintings, that crowd becomes a single figure. Arms multiply around one torso, holding, steadying, pushing away. The black line does not close the silhouette. It marks the seams where one self hands the body over to another.
Each work gathers around a point of light on one of the body’s energy centres. Stand in front of one and notice where it lands in you. Which of your selves lives there? Which one do you hold close, and which one do you keep pushing away?
One body walked through the door. How many of you came with it?
//03 — patrick stevens · digital
Too bright, all at once
Patrick Stevens works in digital art and image manipulation. He takes images apart and rebuilds them, lays abstraction over the recognizable, and pushes colour to a saturation that is almost too much.
He treats the conventions of the image as material to break. His work asks viewers to question what they are looking at, and then why they believed it.
For Source Resolution he draws on his first year in Toronto: relearning how to be around people after a breakup, and feeling like a fish out of water.
//04 — visit · free · 978 queen st w
Pick your day
| day | hours | in the gallery | register |
|---|---|---|---|
| tue nov 10 | 10am–7pm | patrick 10am–4pm · régis 4–7pm | book → |
| wed nov 11 | 10am–7pm | patrick 10am–4pm · régis 4–7pm | book → |
| thu nov 12 | 10am–7pm | patrick 10am–4pm · régis 4–7pm | book → |
| fri nov 13 | 10am–7pm + opening reception 6–9pm (artist talk around 7:30pm · food + non-alcoholic drinks) | patrick 10am–4pm · régis 4–7pm · both artists at the opening reception | book → rsvp opening reception → |
| sat nov 14 | 10am–7pm | patrick 10am–4pm · régis 4–7pm | book → |
| sun nov 15 · last day | 10am–7pm | patrick 10am–4pm · régis 4–7pm | book → |
//05 — collect
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