Jeremy Laing at Susan Hobbs Gallery

Toronto, ON – Opening on Thursday 27 November 2025 and running until 10 January 2026, Susan Hobbs Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Jeremy Laing.

Jeremy Laing’s recent exploration of ceramic casting and moulding is formulated as an analogy for being shaped and personified by inherited concepts like race gender and sexuality and the ongoing material conditions of the world around us. Conceptually the mould is a stand-in for the predetermined and determining conditions of social formations and identities the structures we defer to embody grow into and follow or divert from and expand. Indeed rather than represent a lack or a hard limit the contours of a mould’s void form the basis for new elaborations. Through queer social and material encounter a moulds emptiness offers space for a new presence iteration rather than precise replication.

           Engaging material process as metaphor at the European Ceramic Workcentre (EKWC) residency in the Netherlands this summer Laing turned to mould-making to subvert its normative dualistic hierarchy centred as it is around the positive and the negative the cast and the casted the ideal form and its faithful replication. Proposed instead is a pattern of cyclicality shaping and being shaped in concurrent mutuality. No self no other; no master no replica.

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