August 23-24, 2024, Toronto-based street artist Renaissance will be creating work in the Lab’s PlaySpace. A micro-residency.

Artist Statement

Paper originated from a tree that stood as a beacon for many generations as a self-sustaining ecosystem before it was cut down severed from its roots taken from its community broken down altered and changed into the form we know now as paper. This current project that I am embarking on is connecting words to paper, storing messages in affirmations that will transcend beyond the form of paper to be downloaded into the minds of the onlooker inserting them back into the urban setting. Due to man-made policies that have transformed all spaces into post “no bills“ the papers shelf-life is fleeting just like the trees that have been cut transformed into paper and casted away to be cut again and cast away.

About the Artist

Renaissance is a self-taught underground artist from earth. Renaissance creates groundbreaking work that builds connections between us that informs our coexistence in the city of Toronto. By inscribing artwork that is imbued with messages across the city, their work creates interventions that centre community by occupying space for themselves and others.