FLAG Foundation's Spotlight series includes a new or never-before-exhibited artwork paired with a commissioned piece of writing, creating focused and thoughtful conversations between the visual arts and authors, critics, poets, scholars, and beyond. In this iteration, the Spotlight features Jesse Mockrin’s A story told this many times becomes the forest, 2025. The title of the work comes from the poem Daphne pursued by Apollo by Sophia Stid (2020). A text by author Carmen Maria Machado accompanies the presentation.
Mockrin's Spotlight work will be featured in the artist's upcoming solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, opening September 13, 2025. Curated by Adam Harris Levine, the AGO’s Associate Curator of European Art, the exhibition will feature more than 12 new large-scale paintings and works on paper, installed alongside paintings, drawings, and sculptures from the AGO’s European Collection.
Above: Installation view of Spotlight: Jesse Mockrin at The FLAG Art Foundation, 2025. Photography by Steven Probert
