Lyla Rye, video still, Hopscotch, 2006. Collection of the artist. Credit: Courtesy of the artist
Exhibitions
Lyla Rye: Hopscotch
The Davies Foundation
3 June - 1 October 2006
Springing from her Dollhouse series, Hopscotch is a new work by Toronto artist Lyla Rye. In this aesthetically charged musing on habitation, a dramatic video projection of the modular space of a dollhouse is distorted by gallery surfaces, while the viewer is embraced by Rye's literal extrapolation of grid lines across the walls and floor. The sense of geometries set loose is augmented by the flickering movement of building toys within the cell-like rooms of the projected image. Here, childhood ideals of fluid and fulsome domesticity are translated into the virtual realm, a seductive dystopia of fleeting presences processed in accordance with unrelenting and incomprehensible rules.
Meet Lyla Rye at the opening reception for Hopscotch on Friday 2 June, 4:30 - 6:30 pm. Rye will give an illustrated public talk about her work on Sunday 1 October at 2 pm. The publication for Lyla Rye: Hopscotch, with an essay by Kenneth Hayes, will be released by the Art Centre and Esplanade Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, in the fall.
Jan Allen