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T0RQU3 / TRUCK Arts Collective

Artists Emily Neufeld, Drew Pardy, and Annie Canto stand with backs to the camera wearing caps and blue coveralls. “TRUCK” in yellow bold text stretches across the image.
Image: TRUCK Arts Collective, Truck, video still, 2025.

T0RQU3 / TRUCK Arts Collective
January 23 – February 27, 2026
PAVED Arts, 424 20th St. W. Saskatoon

Opening reception: Friday, January 23, 7–9 pm

T0RQU3 is the first public exhibition of works by TRUCK Arts Collective, the suped-up platform used by artists Drew Pardy, Emily Neufeld, and Annie Canto to explore perceptions of labour and work culture as it pertains to gender, political divides, and assumptions around class made in rural Canada. 

T0RQU3, is comprised of larger-than-life banners of the artists’ “truck avatars” photographed alongside lumber and construction worksites. A tryptic of the three characters hauling a 4×4 truck appears in the Window Gallery and short video clips of labour performances and iconic behaviors loop in the media gallery. Finally, an interactive piece that encourages viewers to “take, haul, and load” is positioned near the gallery entrance.

An open tailgate supported by a wooden structure stands in the center of a beautiful New Foundland landscape of a meadow by the ocean. The tailgate is positioned in front of a pile of logs giving the false idea that the nonexistent truck is full of logs.
A letterpress print with the text “WRK HRD” in the center of an embossing of a license plate.
Artists Emily Neufeld, Drew Pardy, and Annie Canto stand with arms crossed in front of a forest and a pile of lumber. They wear caps, safety goggles, and blue coveralls that have decals stencilled with dust and garter belts that hold various tools.
Artists Emily Neufeld, Drew Pardy, and Annie Canto stand with arms crossed in front of a forest and a pile of lumber. They wear caps, safety goggles, and blue coveralls that have decals stencilled with dust and garter belts that hold various tools.

Artist Bio

TRUCK is a full throttle collective of artists Drew Pardy, Emily Neufeld, and Annie Canto. TRUCK formed in an effort to explore resourcefulness and its ties to masculinity observed by the artists’ upbringings in rural towns across the continent. In labour-based performances documented in large format photos and looping videos, the artists explore gender identity, rural/urban communities, and the patriarchal labour culture that abounds in extractive industries. Across projects, TRUCK’s fashionable if not industrious avatars interact with the truck simultaneously as a stage, mark making device, resting place, workbench, confidant, adversary, and dress-up closet.

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