This exhibition showcases and celebrates major recent donations to the National Gallery of Canada by Winnipeg collector and philanthropist Michael Nesbitt.

Combining paintings, sculptures and mixed media works from this transformative gift, such as sculptor Anne Truitt’s Monk’s way (1980) alongside icons from the Gallery’s permanent collection including Agnes Martin’s White flower I (1985), the show explores “echoes” – art historical, sociocultural, political – between two collections that are now one, thanks to a patron’s collecting vision.

Things which are per se continuous is the enigmatic title taken from the late Lawrence Weiner’s text-based work, which might be interpreted as a comment on how artistic form is part of a continuum that eschews conventional conceptions of space, place and time.