Alyssa Bornn: Soft Ceiling
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Platform: Centre for Photographic & Digital Arts 121-100 Arthur St, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 1H3
Alyssa Bornn: Soft Ceiling
Opening Reception 11 March at 7PM
Soft Ceiling looks at images not as definite moments but as malleable surfaces to bend and press into. Fragments congeal before the mass is pulled apart and forms reconfigure. A room unfurling from a fold of scrap fabric, a single surface creeping past a boundary. A plush plaque. Reciting a word until it sheds its sense.
While making these works I have been thinking about the expansive possibilities of image making. To construct spaces on a screen is to build without the constraints of the physical world. A texture detaches from its host. A dream imaged, holding still long enough to examine the seams – slipping under such scrutiny. Photogrammetry gives three-dimensional form back to objects flattened by the act of photographing. Captured on screen they are once again affixed to a plane. Resulting images offer source material to pull back into the tactile world, an image becomes a pattern from which to shape an object. The desktop is a permeable membrane. - Alyssa Bornn
Biography
Alyssa Bornn lives and works in Winnipeg, MB. Her work is primarily centred around ideas relating to transference, interchangeability, language, failure, and the poetics of technical processes. She makes images and objects informed by an interest in early computing, textile production, play, and in the pursuit of visual joy.
She holds a BFA (Hons.) from the University of Manitoba. In 2019 she was awarded the Emerging Digital Artist Award presented by EQ Bank and Trinity Square Video. Her work has recently been exhibited at Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina (2020), Plug In ICA, Winnipeg (2019), Trinity Square Video, Toronto (2019). Current research and projects are supported by the Manitoba Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.