Ayla Dmyterko
- Work
- Biography
Echoing the porous and fragmentary nature of diasporic imagination, my interdisciplinary practice traces articulations of freedom in archival silences and expanded fields. This iterates across remedial forms of oil painting, moving image, dance, sculpture, textiles and texts. By reactivating and re-embodying cultural memory, poetics of precarity and dissonance emerge, exposing how traditions exist amidst new iterations of congregations in an animist world. Forever in flux, I am interested in ways that rituals and symbols are continuously reiterated by artists to shape contemporary psyche and conceptions of the future.
Led by solastalgia, I seek slower paces in response to late capitalist rhythms. This allows me to both absorb and absolve the acceleration of images and information. Embracing ‘hysteria’ and its altered states, I examine spectres of eternal recurrence to understand ways that images and artists are mediums.
Drawing upon lineages of abstraction, colour theory and surrealism, my cyrillist articulations include what is vernacular, pre-patriarchal, fictional, tacit, folkloric, and anachronistic. Through this bricolage approach, I disintegrate hierarchies of knowledge, canonical interpretations of art history and forms of artistic labour.
Led by solastalgia, I seek slower paces in response to late capitalist rhythms. This allows me to both absorb and absolve the acceleration of images and information. Embracing ‘hysteria’ and its altered states, I examine spectres of eternal recurrence to understand ways that images and artists are mediums.
Drawing upon lineages of abstraction, colour theory and surrealism, my cyrillist articulations include what is vernacular, pre-patriarchal, fictional, tacit, folkloric, and anachronistic. Through this bricolage approach, I disintegrate hierarchies of knowledge, canonical interpretations of art history and forms of artistic labour.
EDUCATION
2020: Master of Fine Art with Distinction, Glasgow School of Art, UK
2016: Bachelor of Fine Art with Honors (Painting), Concordia University, Montréal, CA
2011: Bachelor of Education with Honors (Visual Art & Dance), University of Regina, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024: (upcoming) Alma Pearl, London, UK
2023: Liberate Thee, Angel of History, Pangée, Montréal, CA
2023: On Volya, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2022: Solastalgic Inheritance, Goethe Institut, Glasgow, UK
2021: POUR THE FEAR: Solastalgic Synchronicities, Lunchtime Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2016: The Story Began with a Beet, It Must End with the Devil, Pangée, Montréal, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Antigone Revisited, Hypha Studios, London, UK
Soil Horizon, KIKRI Projects, Sifnos Island, GR
Bitch Magic, Alma Pearl, London, UK
The Seasons Reverse, 36 Washington Street Studios, Glasgow, UK
Скарбниця/Skarbnytsya, Outlier Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2022
The Grass At Our Feet, VITRINE Gallery, Basel, CH
Labour & Memory, ACT Arts Centre, Maple Ridge, CA
Happy Tide Will Flood Again, 5 Florence Street, Glasgow, UK
Artists for Ukraine, 16 Nicholson Street, Glasgow, UK
Reverb, Royal Scottish Academy, Visual Arts Scotland, UK
2020
Ritual & Lore, Art Gallery of Regina, CA
SCREENINGS
2024
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, U-Kino, SODA, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Over the Hill & Far Away, London Short Film Festival, ICA London, UK
Collective Dreaming, Meno Avilys, Vilnius, LI
Drawing From Calcareous Milk Teeth, aCinema Space, Milwaukee, WI
2023
On Volya: Filling in the Frescoes, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2022
Collective Dreaming, CCA Glasgow, UK
Our Shape Apparently, Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick, UK
Sometimes Time, Mourning School, Stockholm, SE
2021
2020: Master of Fine Art with Distinction, Glasgow School of Art, UK
2016: Bachelor of Fine Art with Honors (Painting), Concordia University, Montréal, CA
2011: Bachelor of Education with Honors (Visual Art & Dance), University of Regina, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024: (upcoming) Alma Pearl, London, UK
2023: Liberate Thee, Angel of History, Pangée, Montréal, CA
2023: On Volya, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2022: Solastalgic Inheritance, Goethe Institut, Glasgow, UK
2021: POUR THE FEAR: Solastalgic Synchronicities, Lunchtime Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2016: The Story Began with a Beet, It Must End with the Devil, Pangée, Montréal, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Antigone Revisited, Hypha Studios, London, UK
Soil Horizon, KIKRI Projects, Sifnos Island, GR
Bitch Magic, Alma Pearl, London, UK
The Seasons Reverse, 36 Washington Street Studios, Glasgow, UK
Скарбниця/Skarbnytsya, Outlier Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2022
The Grass At Our Feet, VITRINE Gallery, Basel, CH
Labour & Memory, ACT Arts Centre, Maple Ridge, CA
Happy Tide Will Flood Again, 5 Florence Street, Glasgow, UK
Artists for Ukraine, 16 Nicholson Street, Glasgow, UK
Reverb, Royal Scottish Academy, Visual Arts Scotland, UK
2020
Ritual & Lore, Art Gallery of Regina, CA
SCREENINGS
2024
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, U-Kino, SODA, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Over the Hill & Far Away, London Short Film Festival, ICA London, UK
Collective Dreaming, Meno Avilys, Vilnius, LI
Drawing From Calcareous Milk Teeth, aCinema Space, Milwaukee, WI
2023
On Volya: Filling in the Frescoes, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2022
Collective Dreaming, CCA Glasgow, UK
Our Shape Apparently, Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick, UK
Sometimes Time, Mourning School, Stockholm, SE
2021
- Ayla Dmyterko
- Distance of Sea, of Years
- Installation
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- Veils of Forgetfulness
- Tapestry
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- Veils of Forgetfulness (detail)
- Tapestry
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- If Our Paths Ran Parallel, They Would Never Meet
- Painting
- Ayla Dmyterko
- If Our Paths Ran Parallel, They Would Never Meet (detail)
- Painting
- Ayla Dmyterko
- Temporal Vocabulary for Reverie
- Found Objects
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- Importation
- Painting
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