(Re)worlding Creative Futures | Elyse Longair

Biography

Elyse Longair is an emerging artist currently completing her MFA student in the Interdisciplinary Art Media & Design program at OCAD University, Canada. Her work has been included in group and solo exhibitions nationally. In 2010, she was an artist in residence at The Banff Centre for the residency 10 Figures in a Mountain Reprise with Silke Otto Knapp, and Jan Verwoert, receiving the RBC Youth Excellence Scholarship. Presently, Elyse is an RBC Emerging Artist at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery. Primarily working in collage, her work aims to explore how fragmented worlds of a reconstructed past may question our notions of time and reshape our thinking of the future.

Artist Statement

My artistic praxis references and engages with ideas and sounds of science fiction worldbuilding. In my current series, I aim to explore how fragmented worlds of a reconstructed past may question our notions of time and reshape our thinking of the future. The combination of simple image collages and electro music hopes to encourage us to rethink and reflect on the role of imagination, opening up new possibilities for imagined futures.