Three Cities, One Direction

Nicolas Sisto moves through cities the way certain kinds of music move through time—not stopping anywhere in particular, accumulating texture from each place without quite belonging to any of them. Paris, London, Montréal sounds like a route more than a title: three points on a map that share a certain self-conscious cultural weight, three places with very strong opinions about what it means to make something. The work holds that tension loosely, which is the right call. Some things work best when they don’t try to resolve where they came from.