The Power Plant

The South Facade Billboard is an ongoing series of photographic works that resonate with the context within which they are presented on the lake-facing exterior wall of the gallery. For this edition, The Power Plant has partnered with ERA Architects to showcase the work of artist Christina Leslie in a presentation that aligns with the goals of Art=Waterfront, an ERA-led initiative that identifies the waterfront as a vital space to foster and celebrate the city’s artistic and cultural landscape.

Part of Leslie’s photographic series Pinhole Parishes (2023-25), the selected image, Pinhole 11, explores memory, place, and intergenerational connection through the lens of her Jamaican heritage. Drawing inspiration from stories and memories shared by relatives, Leslie's images create a dialogue between past and present, reconstructing familial and cultural histories shaped by migration, geography, and fragmented archives. At once a personal act of remembrance and a broader act of reclamation, the series maps stories across all fourteen civil territorial divisions in Jamaica known as parishes.

About the Artist
Christina Leslie (b. 1983) is a Pickering-based photographic artist. She holds a BFA from OCAD University (2006) and an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design (2022). Leslie has exhibited at institutions including GAMU in Prague, Oakland University in Michigan, the Royal Ontario Museum, BAND Gallery, Canada’s Pier 21, the Art Gallery of Windsor, Prefix Photo, the McMaster Museum of Art, MOCA Toronto, and many others. Recent exhibitions include Likkle Acts at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (2024–2025) and Pinhole Portraits and Places at Stephen Bulger Gallery (2025). She also served as Interim Assistant Curator at the McMaster Museum of Art, curating THE GREAT UNSEEN(2025). Her photographs are held in private, corporate, and institutional collections, and she is represented by Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto.