Viewers around the world can catch new and existing works from Martine Gutierrez, Charlotte Zhang, Vivek Shraya, Skeena Reece, and more

JUNE 29, 2026 (VANCOUVER, CANADA) — The Polygon Gallery launches today its first online platform and digital exhibition Parallelogram, featuring work by more than 10 artists across two volumes. The online-only group show offers an opportunity for audiences around the world to engage with text, image, and video-based works by internationally acclaimed artists who have presented at the gallery.

On view from today through Sept. 20, Volume 1: Interior Infinite Revisited offers reflections on Interior Infinite, the first major exhibition curated by Elliott Ramsey at The Polygon in 2021. The group exhibition focused on costume and masquerade, exploring radical self-expression as an act of resistance against the status quo. Parallelogram features a guided curator’s tour of Interior Infinite, an interview with the all-Asian drag family House of Rice, and a mockumentary by Skeena Reece centred on an Indigenous woman who identifies as a white Australian. Also featured is video documentation of Martine Gutierrez’s durational performance Odysseus and the Sirens — originally performed at the gallery in 2024. The video makes its world premiere in conjunction with her solo show Wunderkind at the Huis Marseille in Amsterdam.

“Parallelogram offers a unique opportunity to revisit Interior Infinite almost exactly five years after its presentation,” says Ramsey. “The exhibition came together in a moment of great upheaval: in the midst of the pandemic, during the Black Lives Matter movement, and many other rapid social changes. During that time, questions around what defined ‘normality’ and who it serves began to arise, and those questions pointed toward deeper inquiries that are still very much a part of my curatorial work. It feels timely to look back on this show at a time when we’re undergoing social upheaval once more and perhaps even regressing on some of the progress we made in that time.”

Volume 2: Presence will be available online from Sept. 21 to Dec. 27, the same week as The Polygon opens Catherine Blackburn + Jeneen Frei Njootli: Traces. The all-Indigenous volume opens with a poem by Deirdre Lee, and text and video-based works by Jacqueline Morrisseau-Addison, Aaron Rice, Emma Hassencahl-Perley, Tʼuyʼtʼtanat-Cease Wyss, and Jordan Abel.

Parallelogram also features two new commissions: Acclaimed author and artist Vivek Shraya’s short film Bodyrebuilding is an account of the strength training she undertook to manage chronic pain, while reflecting on transness and modern day gym culture. Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize winner Charlotte Zhang’s The Fountaincleaners offers a sketch of the materials and research that went into her debut feature film Tycoon, an experimental work that depicts a dystopian near-future Los Angeles that premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam earlier this year.

View these works and more at parallelogram.ca.

About The Polygon Gallery
Grounded in photography, The Polygon Gallery creates space to challenge how we see the world. The Gallery moved into its Governor General’s Medal-winning building in 2017 after operating as Presentation House Gallery for 40 years. The organization has presented more than 300 exhibitions and earned a reputation as one of the country’s most adventurous public art institutions. Admission is by donation, courtesy of BMO Financial Group.

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Banner Image: Odysseus and the Sirens (2024) by Martine Gutierrez, originally performed at The Polygon Gallery in 2024. Photo by Alison Boulier.