Maude Corriveau's oil paintings and pastel drawings hover between surface and illusion, using the curtain as an optical device rather than a symbol. Her layered process—physical staging, photography, generative AI, and painting—slows synthetic images into dense, luminous fabric. The resulting canvases feel unresolved in the best way, inviting prolonged looking.

The exhibition runs at Plato gallery through October 3, where Corriveau exposes linen and builds successive layers of oil, transforming digital glow into physical presence. Her attention to light on disposable materials gives these works a strange tactility, suspending certainty between seeing and knowing. Montreal-based, she continues a painterly inquiry into how images emerge.