Exhibition Ending Soon! "Hannah Epstein: Plato's Goon Cave". Only a few days left to visit this exhibition before it is gone.
The Art Gallery is open to visit this exhibition Wednesday -Sunday 12:00 pm - 5:00pm, but only until May 17.
image: installation detail, MSVU Art Gallery, 2026
photo: Wiebke Schroeder
from: @msvulibrary
If you're passionate about the topic of AI slop, come check out From Slop to Broth to hear from NS artist Hannah Epstein and our panelists!
Wednesday, May 6, 11am-12pm, Faculty Lounge (Seton 407)
Hannah Epstein combines textiles and digital media to create characters, immersive environments, and stories that explore contemporary desires and anxieties through a folkloric lens. In her dizzying installation, Plato’s Goon Cave, she stages a slippery allegory of epistemic uncertainty in a media-saturated present.
Hannah Epstein: Plato's Goon Cave
Curated by Blair Fornwald
Visit this exhibition until May 17.
Open Wednesdays through Sundays from 12:00pm – 5:00pm
Images: Hannah Epstein: Plato’s Goon Cave, installation details, MSVU Art Gallery, 2026
Photos: Wiebke Schroeder
In the course “Art in Halifax Now” (CULS 2205), students get the opportunity to learn from local artists and explore galleries and exhibitions in and around Halifax. Plus, they’re taught by the Director of the MSVU Art Gallery. What better way to explore the major dynamics, theories and tendencies in contemporary art?
In this video, the class had a guest lecture from Hannah Epstein. Hannah’s exhibit, Plato’s Goon Cave, is at the @msvuartgallery until May 17, 2026. The MSVU Art Gallery is free and open to the public. It’s open Wednesday to Sunday, 12-5pm.
Have you had a chance to stop by and see "Hannah Epstein: Plato’s Goon Cave"? Just 4 more weeks!
Visit our website to plan your visit: https://www.msvuart.ca/about/plan-your-visit/ We hope to see you soon!
Images: Hannah Epstein: Plato’s Goon Cave, installation views, MSVU Art Gallery, 2026. Photos: Wiebke Shroeder.
Plato’s Goon Cave is both a funhouse-mirror inversion of Plato’s allegory, where the cave has become chaotic, fascinating and deeply stimulating, and a logical, if speculative, continuation of the tale. The goons—hulking, but flaccid monsters collectively named after the practice of sustaining a euphoric, trance-like state through prolonged masturbation or other self-soothing, repetitive behaviors—are unchained, complacent, and oddly self-sufficient, goggle-eyed and grinning.
Continuing to May 17
Hannah Epstein: Plato’s Goon Cave
Curated by Blair Fornwald
MSVU Art Gallery is open Wednesdays through Sundays from 12:00pm – 5:00pm
Image: Hannah Epstein: Plato’s Goon Cave, installation view. MSVU Art Gallery, 2026.
Photo: Wiebke Schroeder
Hannah Epstein: Plato's Goon Cave
on exhibition until May 17, 2026
Curated by Blair Fornwald
Epstein’s installation is populated by hulking, effigy-like monsters, with grinning rug-hooked faces, and monumental yet flaccid bodies assembled from castoffs from the consumer waste stream—bits of fabric and yarn, old clothing, and ratty plush toys. Some are propped up with scaffolding, while others slump lazily in secondhand chairs or against the walls, while AI-generated video projections wash over the walls and across the figures’ limp bodies, animating them with narrative complexity, ontological ambiguity, and something approaching vitality.
Image: Installation detail, MSVU Art Gallery, 2026
Photo: Wiebke Schroeder
Have you had a chance to stop by to see “Hannah Epstein: Plato’s Goon Cave”? Continuing on view until May 17. And check out the website https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/hannah-epstein-platos-goon-cave/ for an exhibition audio tour by Hannah Epstein (with transcription available)
Photo: Wiebke Schroeder
Crafternoon: Rug Hooking with Hannah Epstein
Tuesday, March 10, 12:00 – 2:00pm
Mount Saint Vincent Library & Archives, 15 Lumpkin Road
Presented in partnership with the Mount Saint Vincent Library & Archives and MSVU Art Gallery.
Come craft, unwind, and learn how artist Hannah Epstein uses rug-hooking, a centuries-old medium with its roots in Atlantic Canadian folk art, to explore the anxieties, desires, and fixations of the chronically online.
Learn the basics of this resourceful, therapeutic, and endlessly-adaptable craft, and how Epstein uses it to connect past and present, depicting grinning demons, internet memes, and AI slop to examine how contemporary folktales emerge and circulate.
Meet in the Library Print Hub for this fun and informative craft session. Beginners, experienced-rug hookers, and first-timers alike are welcome to attend. All materials and supplies will be provided.
Image: Hannah Epstein, Noooo (detail)
