Art Metropole Behind Your Stumbling Poster Home Friendly + Fire interrogates the

Friendly + Fire interrogates the male subjective experience of war and the gendered implications of camaraderie or “brotherhood” while aligning the seriousness of a war target with the frivolities of gossip: “MILITARY LINGO SUBLIMATES SMACK TALK FROM HERE ON IN

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Douglas Walker: Other Worlds

curating together over 70 artists and writers

Tarah Hogue’s curatorial essay considers the grounding of Stimson’s practice in the energetic lifeworld of the Siksikaitsitapi from his early paintings to the new work created for the exhibition

Details • 256 pages • Publisher: Doubleday Canada • 15

Art Metropole Behind Your Stumbling Poster Home Friendly + Fire interrogates theArt Metropole pleased to announce an outdoor exhibition on public hoardings in Toronto, especially in the vicinity of Art Metropoles Sterling Road offices, including Bloor Street West, Dundas Street West, and Roncesvalles Avenue`. These areas will feature the wheat pasted copies of Behind Your Stumbling, a 2020 poster edition by artist Kota Ezawa and writer Dodie Bellamy. The poster is the first of a new series commissioned by Art Metropole, engaging