Bio

Sylvia Matas is an artist working with images and language resulting in videos, books, texts, and drawings.  Her work has been exhibited at Gallery 44, YYZ Artist's Outlet, Mercer Union (Toronto), The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Plug In ICA (Winnipeg), Truck Contemporary Art (Calgary), and Útúrdúr (Reykjavik).

Works

Night Circled

  • 2021
  • Sylvia Matas

Night Circled was made by recording video from online surveillance cameras.

night vision camera with text reading night circled with nowhere to land

Don't Look at the Moon

  • 2020
  • Sylvia Matas

The subtitles in this video grew from my research of our moon from both cultural and scientific perspectives. The first image is our moon, followed by the of moons of the surrounding planets.

image of the moon with text reading "don't look at the moon"

New Rooms

  • 2020
  • Sylvia Matas

New Rooms was made from a sequence of photos that I found in online image archives like the New York City Library's Picture Collection. The photos that contained people were transformed into written descriptions. As a result, the presence of those people must be imagined.

black screen and text describing a room