ARIA DEAN in conversation with Diego Marcon

September 13, 2026 | 3:00 PM

The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Marvin Gelber Print & Drawing Study Centre

Join Diego Marcon and Aria Dean for a conversation on Marcon's first Canadian solo exhibition, The Bubble Boy. The exhibition presents four films that combine CGI, prosthetics, robotics, and cinematic techniques to create works that feel both artificial, yet strangely alive. Drawing on genres including musicals, horror, cartoons, and Italian opera, Marcon's films invoke emotional ambiguity and the blurred boundary between the humorous and the grotesque. Following Dean’s inclusion of Marcon’s work in Site and Simulation—her curated program for TIFF Wavelengths Presents—the two artists come together at the AGO to discuss the moving image, simulation, and the potential that springs from blurring reality and virtuality.

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