If you’ve ever wanted to step inside a drawing and walk around in it, visit Marie-José Laframboise‘s installation Les Inflexions I and II at Centre d’exposition Circa. The artist is known for her innovative use of everyday materials, and for this exhibition she filled the large gallery space at Circa with deconstructed Hoola-Hoops. Simply pulled apart and taped together end-to-end, the brightly coloured plastic tubes arch and twist through the void from floor to ceiling. It looks as though a giant drew randomly into space with a children’s crayon, but there is a deliberate rhythm and spacing to the vivid lines exposing the artist’s subtle hand.

As you wander around in the space, paths open up suggesting a choreography, but often the way is blocked by a strand of plastic hose and you must choose to backtrack or step across the imaginary boundary. It is an invitation to play, to break the rules, to smile.

The installation feels at once monumental and empty. If you stay for a while, ponder the geometry of the curves, the play of convex and concave, the polarizing colours against the stark while gallery walls. Individual circles are broken, but reattached to create a community of rainbows.

Marie-José Laframboise’s exhibition may be exactly the thing you need to combat the “Polar Vortex”.

Centre d’exposition Circa, space 444
Marie-José Laframboise
Les Inflexions I and II
January 11 – February 15, 2014
www.circa-art.com