Solastalgic Soliloquy, still
Single-channel digital video
05:27 minutes
2020

Solastalgic Soliloquy
Single-channel digital video
05:27 minutes
2020

Warped Warnings
Total Installation; oil on raw linen, USSR-era matryoshka dolls, stoneware hollyhocks with crackle glaze, cotton thread on woven polypropylene and archival textile, onions, satin ribbons, cross-century regalia and a para-fictional text titled A Call for Recur printed at Sunday’s Print
Dimensions Variable
2022

Warped Warnings, installation detail
Total Installation; oil on raw linen, USSR-era matryoshka dolls, stoneware hollyhocks with crackle glaze, cotton thread on woven polypropylene and archival textile, onions, satin ribbons, cross-century regalia and a para-fictional text titled A Call for Recur printed at Sunday’s Print
Dimensions Variable
2022

Ayla Dmyterko

Ayla Dmyterko (she/her) is a Ukrainian-Canadian artist based in Glasgow raised on Treaty 4, the territories of the nêhiyawak (Cree), Anihšināpēk (Saulteaux), Dakota, Lakota, and Nakoda, as well as the homeland of the Métis/Michif Nation. Upon completing her Master of Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art (2020), she was awarded the Graduate Fellowship through the Glasgow Sculpture Studios. Prior to studying in the UK, she completed a BFA in Painting at Concordia University and a BEd in Visual Art and Dance Education at the University of Regina. She has exhibited her work internationally at VITRINE, Basel & London; Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto; Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick; Mourning School, Stockholm; CCA Glasgow; Lunchtime Gallery, Glasgow; Art Gallery of Regina; Hague Gallery, Regina; aCinema, Milwaukee; Regina Performing Arts Centre; MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina; Projet Pangée, Montréal & Gallery Aux Vues, Montréal. She looks forward to forthcoming residency at the Inshriach Both Residency in the Cairngorms, group exhibitions at APT Gallery, London; ACT Arts Centre, Maple Ridge and a solo exhibition and residency with Projet Pangée, Montréal in 2023.

My artworks are anachronisms; I warp time to embrace interstices where we can dream ourselves as one another.

Echoing the fragmentary and porous nature of diasporic imagination, my interdisciplinary practice weaves together remedial forms of painting, moving image, dance, sculpture, textiles and texts. Reactivating and re-embodying cultural memory, poetics of precarity and dissonance expose what inherited aesthetics and ethics become visible amidst generational slippage. Oscillating between reverence and regeneration, I examine spectres of eternal recurrence to understand ways that images and artists are mediums. Drawing upon the vernacular, pre-patriarchal, theoretical, fictional, folkloric, spiritual and tacit, my works disintegrate canonical interpretations of art history, hierarchies of knowledge and forms of artistic labour. Forever in flux, my work explores ways that the past is continuously modified and reiterated to shape our current psyche and conceptions of the future.