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Through the Eye offers insight into iconic filmmaker David Cronenberg鈥檚 influences throughout his storied career. The late French artist Louise Bourgeois鈥� provocative hanging bronze Arch of Hysteria (1993) is one of five works on view from the National Gallery of Canada鈥檚 collection. Androgynous and headless, Bourgeois鈥� depiction of a sexualized body arched in pleasure or pain relates to many themes in Cronenberg鈥檚 vast filmography, as does Alex Colville鈥檚 Living Room (1999-2000), with its palpable sense of angst and shadowless scenery. John Scott鈥檚 Horror Files鈥� (1993) and Mark Prent鈥檚 Ringturner (1982) are charged works-on-paper by artists who have captured Cronenberg鈥檚 interest and admiration for years. The same holds true for John Massey, whose gothic print of two disembodied arms, Versailles (1985), illustrates his fascination with the film screen, voyeurism and the intimate connections between the eye and the mind. The presentation is rounded off by Andy Warhol鈥檚 Electric Chair (Retrospective Series) (c. 1978), generously loaned by Marla and Larry Wasser, Toronto, and two works from Cronenberg鈥檚 own collection 鈥� a painting by the late William S. Burroughs and a print by graphic illustrator Charles Burns.