You still have a couple of days to catch the quietly witty exhibition Entre-temps at Circa, featuring the doll-sized sculptures by Montreal artist Guillaume Lachapelle. His tiny models of every-day objects such as radiators, pipes, turnstiles, and scaffolding, are imbued with subtly surreal twists. The front portion of a miniature baroque balcony swings open like a gate – who invented this dangerous contraption? I searched for a tiny victim on the gallery floor. A book lays open on a plinth, but instead of sentences running across the pages there are shelves of miniscule books – stories within a story – the rows collapsing into the spine as though each word was being sucked into an abyss. Each sculpture suggests a story. Why is a man, trapped by a fence of radiators, sucking on one of the hot water pipes? Or is he the one giving off the heat? Lachapelle’s improbable constructions are like manifestations of fleeting dreams, inviting our interpretation.

Circa, space 444
Guillaume Lachapelle
Entre-temps
September 10 – October 8, 2011
www.circa-art.com