Join us for an Artist Talk with Alexandra Gelis.
Alexandra Gelis is a Colombian-Venezuelan artist living between Canada, Panama and Colombia. Her practice is research-based, process-oriented and multidisciplinary; it includes film, photography, drawing, media installation with custom-built interactive electronics and sound. Her projects incorporate personal field research to investigate the ecologies of different landscapes by examining the traces left by various socio-political interventions. Gelis explores, documents and re-creates ecologies that take shape between plants and people and between plants and their multi-species interrelationships. Gelis has expanded her practice to working collaboratively with youth and diverse communities in the Americas.
She has exhibited in film festivals and exhibitions internationally in the Americas, Europe and Africa and she has given talks in Kassel at DOCUMENTA Institute, Germany, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico, University of Zurich, and many arts and food sovereignty conferences. Gelis has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, The Paavo & Aino Lukkari Award, Musagetes Arts Foundation and rare Charitable Research Reserve.
Register here: Lunchtime Artist Talk with Alexandra Gelis Tickets, Wed, 13 Sep 2023 at 12:30 PM | Eventbrite
Above Image: On Americanity and Other Experiences of Belonging, 2023. Onsite Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto. Installation View. Artwork shown: Alexandra Gelis, Migrant Superpositions: convertirse en, 2023. Photo by Em Moor.
