Opening Saturday Aug 1st 12-2 (artist talk 12:30 – 1:30 pm), Show: July 17 to September 1, 2026.
This exhibition explores the quiet anxieties of contemporary life through the lens of a humble road cone, as the symbolic protagonists.
Viz Saraby presents the narrative of Cone. A familiar icon of caution, Saraby’s traffic cone navigates a world defined by overprotection and paranoia. Her work uses graphic simplicity to interrogate the psychological weight of safety and the isolation of the individual in an increasingly guarded society.
Artist Talk
Viz Saraby
‘Conestruction’, 2026
Cone invites you to join his quest and to visit his personal road-based vision for safe spaces: ‘Conestruction’.
Since his youthful days in the early 1900s, Cone has been obsessed with safety. However, lately, Cone finds that the values he once held dear and the social norms he adhered to have undergone a profound evolution.
In this modern era, the concept of ‘safety’ has taken on new dimensions. It’s not just about physical protection anymore; now, it encompasses psychological well-being. Cone finds himself grappling with how to navigate this shifting paradigm.
Viz Saraby is an interior designer, photographer, and artist whose practice explores the relationship between space, perception, and everyday experience. With over two decades of experience as an educator and coordinator of Interior Design at George Brown College, and a background in architecture, art history, and design, Viz brings a multidisciplinary perspective to her creative work.
Her work investigates how environments and images shape the way people understand and interact with the world around them. Through photography, spatial interventions, and artistic experimentation, she questions how spaces and objects are used, experienced, and interpreted, revealing the assumptions embedded in everyday life.
Viz explores the transformation of the ordinary into the unexpected, examining how context, perspective, and personal experience influence meaning. Through image manipulation, re-framing, and placing familiar subjects in unfamiliar contexts, she creates opportunities for open-ended and sometimes ambiguous interpretations, inviting viewers to reconsider what they see and discover new possibilities within the familiar.
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