Four Rooms was a month-long installation by the Toronto-based elsewhere collective, presented as the inaugural exhibition of Atelier 1888, Gallery 1888’s artist residency program.

Staged in four evolving chapters—Bed, Bath, Sofa, and Table—the project unfolded weekly, transforming the skylight gallery into a living, shifting architecture of memory. At its centre stood an 8 x 8-foot mirrored cube: a cinematic device and spatial anchor that reflected, obscured, and reconfigured each room’s surrounding environment.

Merging expanded cinema, architectural intervention, and autonomous light and sound performances, Four Rooms explored the porous boundaries between body, space, and narrative. The installation invited visitors to step into a surreal reimagining of the domestic interior, where emotion, memory, and perception blurred.

Throughout its run, the exhibition drew wide interest from Toronto’s art, design, and performance communities. It was featured in media outlets including CP24, Cityline, and NOW Toronto, and welcomed hundreds of visitors during its opening weekend and ongoing weekly rotations.

Collective members: Katrina Jurjans, Nellie Jalalzadeh, Mehdi Latifian
Special thanks to: Cassra (sound design)

Katrina Jurjans’ work immerses viewers in a world where realities shift, overlap and transform. Graduating from Concordia University in 2014 with a BFA in Studio Art and Art History, Jurjans has continually explored the complex terrain between the tangible and ephemeral.

In her final years of studies, she became captivated by spatial theory, particularly focusing on spaces of transition and their capacity for transformation. This fascination with memory, emotionality and boundaries – spatial, temporal and bodily – has since become the conceptual backbone of her practice.

Jurjans’ paintings are a manifestation of these ideas, expressed through intricate patterns, vibrant colour and dynamic spatial tension. Much like the phases of the moon – one celestial body in a constant state of becoming – Jurjans’ works reflect the idea that change is not an end but a continual, cyclical process.

Each piece invites viewers to enter a dreamlike world to engage with the fluidity of perception and experience. Through fragmented compositions where figures and spaces fluctuate between foreground and background, past and present, memory and dream, Jurjans presents a world in a constant state of reshaping and transforming.