Residues are reimagines in Residue, the concluding exhibition of Alyssa's 2023 Creative in Residence. In response to the residency’s curatorial theme of decay, Alyssa produced an experiential textile installation that made use of inorganic waste and plant material sourced from the TMU Urban Farm
About Alyssa
Alyssa Alikpala is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and researcher working across sound, sculpture, fibre, installation, and ephemeral forms. Focusing on process and indeterminacy, the work explores the body’s interaction with, and traces left in, the environment. In her approach, the role of permission is examined in obscuring the boundaries of the body and the spaces it occupies.
Through a practice of gathering, she considers the embedded cycles and histories of the organic, found, and discarded materials that are used. Her ongoing interventions with wheatpasted grass and other plant matter respond to time, place, and conditions of the built and natural environment and ultimately accept their impermanence.
Alyssa is currently based in Toronto, Canada and has recently exhibited at Open Studio, Myta Sayo Gallery, Project 107, Gallery TPW (Toronto), and participated internationally in residence at La Napoule Art Foundation (France). Her work has been included in Images Festival, Scotiabank Contact Festival, and publications such as Studio Magazine and Newest Magazine.