Sylvia matas: a reversal of winds

A Reversal of Winds brings together images and texts that point to unrealized futures and residue of past worlds that co-exist within the present. The existence of people is peripheral. They enter the book indirectly through traces they’ve left: a path in the snow, billows of smoke, the remains of built environments…

Sylvia Matas is an interdisciplinary artist from Winnipeg, Canada whose work is characterized by an inquiry into the grey area between reality and perception, through an exploration of unexplained phenomena, our relationship with nature, and altered experiences of time and space. She received a Masters of Fine Arts from the Chelsea College in London, England (2008). Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues in Winnipeg such as Plug In ICA, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Gallery 1C03, Lantern, Lisa Kehler Art + Projects; and in Canada and abroad at the Maclaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON; Truck Contemporary Art, Calgary; Útúrdúr, Reykjavik; the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, MKG127, Toronto and Mercer Union, Toronto. 

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