Toronto Biennial of Art - Nos diables rouges, nos dérives commotions (...) danse papillon
Sankofa Square is proud to be an exhibition site for the 2026 Toronto Biennial of Art (TBA), bringing contemporary art into the heart of downtown Toronto.
The fourth edition of the Biennial, titled Things Fall Apart and curated by Allison Glenn, brings together more than 30 artists and collectives from Canada and around the world. Through site-responsive works presented across Toronto and beyond, the Biennial explores moments of rupture and transformation while considering new ways of understanding our histories, geographies and contemporary world.
On View at Sankofa Square
Nos diables rouges, nos dérives commotions (…) danse papillon
Where: Sankofa Square, 1 Dundas Street East, Toronto, Ontario
When: September 26 - December 20, 2026
Timing: Nightly at 10 PM throughout the Biennial
Admission: Free
Experience the work of artist and poet Julien Creuzet across the digital screens of Sankofa Square.
Meaningfully influenced by his Martinican intellectual lineage, Creuzet brings ideas of creolization, errantry and influence into his multimedia practice, combining poetry, imagery and layers of cultural and historical references.
At the centre of the work is the figure of the Red Devil, which emerges from Martinican carnival traditions and is also referenced in Shrove Tuesday traditions in Haiti, Brazil and the Gulf of Guinea. Creuzet uses this fluid and untamed figure as a portal through which multiple histories, traditions and interpretations can coexist.
The artwork will be screened nightly at 10 PM across multiple screens at Sankofa Square throughout the Biennial.
Additional Screen Presentations
Additional screens at the Yonge & Dundas intersection will join the nightly presentation on:
September 25 & 26, October 3, 29, 30 & 31
Throughout November, the work will also be presented in New York City’s Times Square as part of Times Square Arts’ Midnight Moment program, creating a simultaneous presentation across two iconic public spaces.
About The Artist
Born in 1986, Julien Creuzet is a French-Caribbean artist who lives and works in Paris. A visual artist and poet, he actively intertwines these two practices via amalgams of sculpture, installation and textual intervention that frequently address his own diasporic experience. Inspired by the poetic and philosophical reflections of Aimé Césaire and Édouard Glissant on creolization and migration, Creuzet’s work focuses on the troubled intersection of the history of Martinique and the events of European modernity.
Creuzet represented France at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024), and a reimagined iteration of his pavilion travelled to The Bell, Brown University, Providence, RI and the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (2025). He has had solo exhibitions at Le Magasin Centre National D’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France (2023), Performa Biennial, New York (2023), LUMA, Zürich, Switzerland (2023), LUMA, Arles, France (2022); the Camden Art Centre, London, UK (2022); Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2021); Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France (2019); CAN Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland (2019); Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris, France (2018); and Bétonsalon, Paris, France (2018).
He has participated in numerous group exhibitions in institutions including the Centre Pompidou-Metz, France (2025); 35th São Paulo Bienal, São Paulo, Brazil (2023); the 12th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK (2023), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL (2022-2023); Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland (2022); the National Gallery of Prague, Czech Republic, (2022); Wesleyan University Center for the Arts, Middletown, CT (2021); Manifesta 13, Marseille, France (2020); Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France (2020); Kampala Biennale, Kampala, Uganda (2018); and Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea (2018).
He is included in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris; MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue; Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris; Fonds d’art Contemporain, Paris; FRAC Fonds régionaux d’art contemporain, Bourgogne, Champagne-Ardenne, Grand Large, Ile-de-France, Méca, Pays de la Loire; Carré d’Art-Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes; KADIST Foundation, Paris; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, among others.
Photo by Pascale Cholette © Magsin CNAC. Courtesy of the artist, DOCUMENT, Mendes Wood DM and Andrew Kreps.
About Toronto Biennial of Art
The Toronto Biennial of Art is a city-wide contemporary art exhibition held every two years, with a mission to make contemporary art accessible to everyone.
Through newly commissioned artworks, exhibitions and public and learning programs, the Biennial connects artists and audiences with Toronto’s diverse local contexts while creating opportunities for dialogue, discovery and new ways of seeing and listening. More info