The Power Plant presents Manuel Mathieu’s first institutional exhibition in Toronto. Manuel Mathieu is known for vibrant, colourful paintings that seamlessly merge abstraction with figuration. His work reflects on our intertwined lives, in which the boundaries between the past and present or the personal and political are often blurred. Sharing recollections that depict everyday scenes and familial bonds, Mathieu also blends into his canvases an interrogation of the complex history of his birthplace, Haiti. By unearthing the traumas of state violence, he addresses issues that remain as urgent today as they have been throughout Haitian history. Read more here: http://thepowerplant.org/Exhibitions/2020/Fall-2020/World-Discovered-Under-Other-Skies.aspx?mc_cid=65b56c682b&mc_eid=1b111c4dd2
