Lucy Raven’s film work Murderers Bar (2025) captures the removal of a dam in the Pacific Northwest and the dramatic release of water that takes the form of a newly born river as it rushes from Oregon through Northern California on its way to the Pacific Ocean.

The 42-minute piece is the final part of a trilogy titled “The Drumfire,” which also includes the 2021 film Ready Mix , a meditation on processes involved in making concrete at a plant in Idaho, and the 2022 films Demolition of a Wall (Album 1 & 2) , which focus on shockwaves visible in the air at an explosives testing range in New Mexico.

Murderers Bar is currently on view at the Power Plant in Toronto through March 22 and will travel to the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston for an exhibition starting

May 20

. (It previously showed last year at the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Barbican in London.) A.i.A.…