
Ayla Dmyterko
Can’t catch lost time or the thinning earth, 2021
Oil on linen with found wooden frame
90 x 54.5 x 7.5cm
NFS
My works are anachronisms; I warp time to seek interstices where we can dream ourselves as one another.
Reactivating and re-embodying cultural memory, I respond to epistemological injustices to locate intersectional sites of transformation. Oscillating between reverence and regeneration, I examine spectres of eternal recurrence to understand ways that images and artists become mediums. Echoing the fragmentary and porous nature of diasporic imagination, poetics of precarity resonate across moving image, painting, sculpture, textiles and text. Drawing upon the vernacular, pre-patriarchal, theoretical, fictional, tacit, folkloric and ecclesiastical, my works disintegrate canonical interpretations of art history, hierarchies of knowledge and expectations of artistic labour.
Ayla Dmyterko (b. 1988, she/they) is a Ukrainian-Canadian artist currently based in Glasgow. Upon completing their MFA at the Glasgow School of Art, she was awarded the Graduate Fellowship through the Glasgow Sculpture Studios. She has exhibited internationally with Lunchtime Gallery, Glasgow; Projet Pangée, Montréal; CCA Glasgow; MAP Magazine, Glasgow; Art Gallery of Regina; Hague Gallery, Regina; Woodland Patterns, Milwaukee; Regina Performing Arts Centre; MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina; Gallery Aux Vues, Montréal; KAJET Journal, Bucharest; Penrose Helix, London; Chains, Glasgow & Mainz; Two Queens Gallery, Leicester and forthcoming with Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto and VITRINE, Basel & London.