Alysia Kaplan is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto,Canada. She holds a BFA in Contemporary Illustrative Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology and an MFA in Printmedia from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
I document our conscious and unconscious desires as we move between the private and the public. Drawn to liminal moments, I respond intuitively through recorded acts of memory and constructed spaces in photography, print, sculpture, and video. My work examines space, the self, memory, and the gaze, and the varied ways we “see” through language, narrative, and context. I do not seek to “define” these moments, rather offering a possible reading of them.
Through juxtaposition, layering, and re-recording, I expand the language of image and, with it, meaning and perception. My work builds non-linear, abstract associations from encoded information, staging the “perceptual event” of encountering signs and signifiers as both static and moving images.