Bonni Reid: Unexpected Detour

Bonni Reid’s Unexpected Detour brings together multimedia works inspired by road trips along the coast, from British Columbia down to Baja California. Using maps, cultural monuments, surrealist imagery, and fairy-tale narrative structures, Reid creates a body of work that feels like a journey through memory, landscape, and imagination. Her visual language carries a steampunk-adjacent spirit, shaped by mechanical references, illustration, animation, and a lifelong interest in storytelling. The exhibition turns travel into a dreamlike detour, where roads become symbols of transformation and familiar places are reimagined through humor, fantasy, and strangeness.