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McLennan Library Building, 4^th floor lobby, (3459 McTavish Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C9). Accessible during opening hours. 

Vernissage - February 3, 2026.

Gabor Szilasi (1928–) began his work of social-documentarian photography in Hungary before settling in Montreal in 1959. Employed by the Office du film du Québec through the 1960s, he captured rural scenes across the province and turned his lens on his adopted city of Montreal for a personal project; to map an urban landscape in a state of flux. From the 1960s onward, his work was widely exhibited and collected, and he later taught photography at Cégep du Vieux Montréal and Concordia University, helping shape generations of Quebec photographers.  

Irregular intersections, leftover spaces, mismatched materials, geometric tensions and overlapping signage are all examples of hinge points in a city’s built environment. These sites embody growth through adaptation and compromise between old and new. Montreal is shaped by these negotiations and Szilasi has extensively documented this these hinge points 1960s. In this exhibition of photographic prints from the late 1970s and early 1980s, we invite you to see our city from Szilasi’s angle.