Artist: Alyssa Scott
Dates: June 14th to 17th, Kathleen St, Sudbury
This year, Le Labo is proud to participate in the Sudbury Alternative Art Fair by showcasing the work of Alyssa Scott. In keeping with the theme of fallow land, which is the common thread running through our artistic programming until 2025, the programming committee has selected Alyssa Scott’s work: Dans l’ombre du soleil/ In the shadow of the sun.
Dans l’ombre du soleil/In the shadow of the sun is an installation of video projections, sculptures and prints. Through her multifaceted work, Alyssa invites us to study images of the countryside, its farms, its agricultural fields and asks us the question of our relationship to this nourishing earth that we transform and exploit, sometimes excessively and often well beyond our real needs.
Every two years since 2008, the Sudbury Alternative Art Fair has celebrated a public space in downtown Sudbury. Based on the concept and parameters of the particular edition, artists are challenged to create a new work within a limited physical and temporal space. For its 7th edition, FAAS is taking up residence in the Donovan neighbourhood, temporarily inhabiting former businesses as spaces for exhibition, conversation and sharing. The Donovan neighborhood is home to many ethnocultural and marginalized groups, as well as a new wave of individuals who are making their homes there. This social mix makes it a unique and diverse neighborhood in the heart of the city. With a neighborhood theme, this is a great opportunity to rally a local community, to be in solidarity with the changes they are facing, and to highlight their considerable contribution.
Alyssa Scott is a visual artist working primarily in printmaking, mixed media and installation. Through her artwork, she contemplates her relationship to rural spaces, land and home. She explores the space between family and nature, land and rural structures, and culture and wilderness to examine the contradictions inherent in living on the land, cultivating the land, and transforming nature to do so. Her practice reflects how the forces of nature and our transformations of nature act upon each other, intertwine and coexist, both constructively and renovatively, and deconstructively and decayingly, through an elusive desire for permanence and familiarity, and the inevitably impermanent, ever-changing, and fragile qualities of the shelters and land that sustain us.