- January 20 – February 2, 2026
- Opening January 22, 6 pm
- Collective City Gallery Project at Dupont Rail
- 1444 Dupont St. #10, Toronto
- Gallery Hours: 12 pm to 5 pm, Wednesday to Sunday
Exhibition statement:
Loudest Sound, a collection of recent works by Ali Sheikh, articulates a collision between information, noise, and affective experience. The cultural privileging of the visual against our simultaneous reliance on the auditory is explored through oil painting and site-responsive installation. Informed by personal reference points and frameworks of the sublime and phenomenology, this series considers how listening, musical structures, and sensory dissonance shape human connection.
Artist Statement:
Ali Sheikh (b. 2001) is a painter and illustrator working in Toronto. Sheikh received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from OCAD University in 2024. His current practice is tethered to questions of emotional conduits and our transfixation with sound. He seeks to express the intensities of life through oil paint, ink, pencil, and found object.
