Paulette Phillips is a conceptual artist worth watching. Her latest work, on view at Diaz Contemporary, presents sculpture, photographs and video based on the Modernist architecture and furniture design of the Irish architect Eileen Gray.

Paulette Phillips, Details of Touche (magnetized books),2007. Image: diazcontemporary.ca

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Phillips, whose work often engages with opposites through mirrors, magnetism and electricity, contrasts the frailty of human emotion with architectural strength. “I’m interested in how we create structures of stability … and how we operate in structures of instability,” she says.