There’s no object too ordinary to get a spot in Micah Lexier’s artworks. He collects scraps torn off cardboard boxes, envelopes and papers lying in the street, even bathroom-cleaning checklists at restaurants – anything that deals with the passage of time or with systems, the driving forces behind his own work as an artist.

Called A to B, the exhibition shown at Toronto’s MKG 127 – included 70 items arranged inside four glass vitrines of Lexier’s design.

Each was chosen for its own unique A to B progression, whether abstract or literal: “They zing back and forth in surprising ways,” says Lexier, who laid the objects out in ways that often furthered the subtle connections between them.

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