Members’ Access: Jun 3–5, 2026
Public Access: Saturday June 6, 2026

Located on Level 1, Philip B. Lind Gallery, #131 and #132

Making his Canadian debut at the AGO, Diego Marcon’s cinematic vision draws on Hollywood musicals, horror films, melodrama, and slapstick, to present films both unsettling and tender. Incorporating CGI, prosthetics, and robotics, Marcon achieves an uncanny quality in his films: images that feel artificial, yet strangely alive. 

At the centre of this installation is Marcon’s newest work, Krapfen (2025). Set in a bedroom, the film describes a child tormented by four characters — a pair of gloves, a foulard, a pair of trousers, and a pullover — who insist that the child should eat an apricot jam krapfen (or German doughnut). Part musical, part neurotic carousel, the objects hector the child as they swirl around, in a choreographed dance, set to music composed by Federico Chiari.