The Artist
Nomad since birth, ito laila set up her art studio in Bas-Saint-Laurent nearly ten years ago. Her artistic practice seeks to repair her ties to the living and to her primitive, animal nature. Her creative process involves exploring the territory and its material and immaterial resources. Ancestral arts are at the heart of her practice. Ito laila's training is twofold: she holds diplomas in glass (Espace Verre, Montreal) and sculpture (Maison des Métiers d'Art du Québec, Quebec City). She represented Quebec at the 2023 Salon Révélations in Paris and completed a CALQ co-creation residency in Potsdam, Germany. To date, she has produced four public artworks integrated into architecture, and some twenty solo exhibitions in museums, galleries and artist-run centers in Quebec, elsewhere in Canada, France and Norway. itolaila.ca
Process
Her creative process is closely linked to the exploration of a location and its material and immaterial resources. She envisions the possibility of giving a voice to the territory through the experience of exploring it closely. She is a romantic and primitive artist who produces work that is wildly contemporary. Ito laila wants to reinforce the sane and simple idea that we are nature. To do this, she urges herself to experience the land, to become immersed in it. Where wilderness is threatened by industry, the artist goes her pilgrim way. Her sculptures offer a poetic whole, where wounds meet the sublime, and organic form is nourished by its own materiality.
Ito laila places great importance on learning ancestral skills and techniques that are disappearing with mechanized work. She invests in these practices by creating hybrid works combining glass, wood, ceramics, textiles, found objects and more. Materials nourish her: their origins and their memory feed her sensitivity, guide her gesture through the web of memories and add their intent to her own. Meaning emerges: words fade away in order to better tell a story. The primitive is her forgotten nature, and she asks to reclaim what belongs to her, what she has lost.
A warm thank you to the CALQ, whose support rendered this residency possible.
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