"Michel Foucault refers to the museum as a heterotopia, a space and place that displays the accumulation of our time, where one rediscovers the past to gain a sort of immediate knowledge in the pooling of the past and present moment and continuing in all things subsequent.

Our early ancestors, as cave dwellers, used the walls of their homes to materialize the human memory into cave paintings. We continue to build structures to capsulate our memories. In my thesis year at Ontario College of Art and Design I rented a studio on D’Arcy Street close to the intersection of Dundas and McCaul. From the view of my studio window I could see the marvelous construction of the Art Gallery of Ontario by architect Frank Gehry. The building became my muse. I photographed it, drew it, painted it and longed for it. Its’ dramatized production juxtaposed my own art manufacturing. Through time a space was created, through space we find a place for the representation of time. Like newly acquired gigabytes on our computer, this Memory Palace, succumbs to our fantasy to fill the empty. Walls persist for the sensational. When finally entering the AGO in 2008 it felt like a long awaited copulation after a lengthy courting and I reminisced of our time together."

Lisa Cristinzo was born in 1980 and is a Toronto based artist. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, she has been exhibiting publicly since 2004. She is influenced by the Dadaists, natural history and the almighty cosmos.