Pursuits Inc.

🚀 Intergalactic Planetary, artist debut Canadian exhibition, has just opened at Arts and runs until December 14, 2025.

Coincidentally, our founder Marla Wasser has been a huge fan of Snelling’s work and has owned an incredible piece titled “Bad Motel” for years. It is such a great honour to see Snelling’s collaboration with the Koffler Arts here in Toronto!

Step inside the exhibition space and you are immersed in a world of cacophonous imagery: tucked-away dining room cluttered with found objects, towering cardboard-and-wood structures with glowing screen “windows,” a life-sized bed evoking a love hotel, neon signage guiding the way through a maze of posters, images, and fragments of pop culture.

Inspired by cities like Shanghai, Tokyo, Berlin, and across the U.S., the Beastie Boys–inspired title mirrors Snelling’s eccentric style. Peep-show screens and voyeuristic vignettes invite you to linger on the details—yet together they form a universal whole, uniting Wong Kar-wai stills with glimpses of Ryan Gosling and Daniel Radcliffe in one eclectic constellation.

Themes of taboos and desire surface throughout. In one corner, a video piece “Tell Me You Love Me” shows the artist engaging in Sh***ri, Japanese rope art, bound with masks, wigs, toys, Hello Kitty, and even George Clooney’s face cutout—blurring play, restraint, and performance.

Forgotten architectures also reappear: miniatures of Naples’ failed Vele di Scampia, Berlin’s infamous Bierpinsel tower, and the abandoned Mäusebunker (“Mouse Bunker”) research facility. Each serves as a memory of spaces once buzzing with promise, now left in ruin.

This is a show best experienced in person—don’t miss it.

🪐 Intergalactic Planetary: Tracey Snelling
📍 Koffler Arts, 180 Shaw St. #104, Toronto
🗓 Sept 18 – Dec 14, 2025