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Proof that buildings are not inanimate objects

Toronto Star

We don't often run across drawn plans for a "laboratory with launching fuel flow meter attached to a micromesh double-fueler fructification tower." But Sara Graham has just the thing at p/m Gallery. As an artist, Graham is both visionary and cheeky. So there's a 101 per-cent chance that the laboratory — part of her series, Bromley's Bluff — doesn't exist outside of her plans and whatever imagination the viewer brings to them. Yet her craftily ambiguous drawing elucidates perfectly the entire exhibition it's in: "Buildings That Spin." For co-curator Malka Greene, the title itself comes specifically from a condo in Curitiba, Brazil constructed in such a way that each of its 11 floors can rotate according to the wishes of its occupants. That led Greene and co-curator Eve Townsend to consider the "motions" architecture goes through once the buildings begin to age and are altered due to their surrounding environments.