An exhibition by maya rae oppenheimer
October 8th - December 17th, 2026
“Errancies” is the result of a research residency in Artexte’s documentary collection that stretched over several months.
Err-: erroneous, erratic, erratum, errant, errancies.
The prefix “err-” means to go astray or stray from, go wrong in judgement, to make mistakes. Blunder. To be incorrect. To be partial towards. To roam, ramble, or wander. It’s a busy syllable. Given this etymology, “erratum” (singular) or “errata” (plural) are corrective, material traces of what it means to err, in print.
maya’s initial research intention, when searching through Artexte’s collection, was to find “examples of errata or the need thereof. I am looking for examples of tones (humor, shame, defensiveness), layout, and poetic errors to counter the persistence/existence of a “correct path” or action.”
The resulting exhibition is part bibliography, part argument towards the poetics of errors, and part material interpretation of said poetics. In addition to material found in the Artexte collection, you will see thirteen of the artist’s original works.
🗓️ Opening : Thursday, October 8th, 2026
⏰ 5PM to 8PM
📍 Artexte
maya rae oppenheimer, phd (she/her), works with, through, from, and around paper: making it, writing on it, reading from it, and generally thinking with it. There is something about the material of paper, from plant fibre to pulp to sheet, that is magical in its intimacy and process.
Making your own paper is empowering because it becomes a vessel for correspondence, admiring, thinking, line-making, printing, projection, wrapping, and coating things. It is also art in its own right. Looking back on her studio, teaching, and research practice thus far, she sees a throughline of paper and especially the book form, with all its features and structures and its presence in the hand.
She is the founder and co-director of OK Stamp Press–a mutual aid art publishing project, co-founder/director of Ddense Sun Press–a community letterpress studio in Montreal, and she also teaches in the Department of Studio Arts at Concordia University. Artist website under perpetual construction.