Winter is an undoubtedly drab time of year that can make going out seem like a chore. Thankfully, things like the Toronto Light Festival, Icebreakers and now Winter Stations are all back to pepper in some colour around the city.
The annual international design competition returns to the waterfront this winter with a series of larger-than-life art installations.
This year's theme centres on 'migration' with the winning designs looking to capture the human tendency for movement with interactive works meant to evoke refection on the subject.
Included is Above the Wall by American artists Joshua Carel and Adelle York. The design is centred on the idea of connecting people by ascending a flight of staircases situated over a wall below.
Another is The Forest of Butterflies by Mexican designer Luis Enrique-Hernandez. It's made up of oversized cutouts of butterfly wings that patrons can enter into and explore.
From Polish artists Tomasz Piotrowaski and Łukasz Chaberka comes Mind Station, a giant hat box that doubles as a life sized game of whack-a-mole in what would be a shy person's worst nightmare.
The question of what attracts humans to certain destinations is captured by Toronto artists John Nguyen, Victor Perez-Amado, Anton Skorishchenko, Abubaker Bajaman and Stephen Seungwon Baik in Cavalcade.
Designed by students at Sheridan College in Mississauga, Inuit multiplies the existing lifeguard station to emulate community and "reimagines the lifeguard station as a migratory species."
And from Humber design students comes Ground2, which can be climbed on, as it's meant to engage patrons in "the ever-shifting human and environmental landscape" and have them experience migration for themselves.
Winter Stations is on from February 18 to April 1 between Ashbridges Bay and Balmy Beach.
by Lisa Power via blogTO
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