Cindy Soler

will all this leave a stain? series

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2026

Acrylic paint, found image collage, pencil crayon, ink pen on cradled wood panel.

Room 430, 4th Floor, 100 McCaul Street, Toronto

Installation images.This three-part series uses acrylic paint, collage and mixed-media to explore themes of: consumerism, globalization, surveillance, the domestic/the home, labour, pop-culture/mass-media, and capitalism."will all this leave a stain?" explores the grotesque and seductive culture of consumerism. The work acts as an archive of consumer culture as it exists in the 25th year of the 21st century. I emphasize how worthless all our accumulated purchases, items, goods, and objects actually are, and how little they satisfy us. The series encourages viewers to reflect on their reliance on consumer culture and provides a framework to imagine something new. [ALT TEXT]: A group of paintings on a wall.

“What if we let go of the mythology that consumption is a neutral act? That this is fulfilling? What if we imagined something more, something kinder?”