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It's officially summer! Beer-swillers laze about on patios, hipsters remove their keffiyehs (well almost), and the Power Plant begins its All Summer, All Free program. Launching concurrently is their summer exhibition Not Quite How I Remember It, which features Canadian artists Diane Borsato and Nestor Krüger, as well as international artists Sharon Hayes, Gerard Byrne, and Kelley Walker, among many others. The show aims to navigate the roles memory and history play in our society and dissect how the past reasserts itself in the present. "In treating the past as a work in progress, artists in the exhibition throw light on timely issues of authorship, ownership, identification, influence, and collectivity," says Helena Reckitt, Senior Curator of Programs.

On Thursday night, two of Toronto’s contemporary galleries unveiled their latest offerings to the public. Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, housed in the massive 401 Richmond complex, is featuring Décalage (2007) by Montréal-based artist Bettina Hoffman. Two sets of two screens face each other on the white walls of the gallery, each set presents a filmed tableau playing a loop whose image is slightly out of sync with that of the screen next to it. In one, two women standing menacingly over the motionless body of another, their faces frozen; while across the gallery a woman sits on the edge of a bed next to a man in post-coital repose(?), staring at her purse on the chair in front of her. Yet, just as the entire image is finally revealed, it disappears from the screen, leaving the viewer utterly disconnected and wanting more.