2018/2019

Alyssa Bistonath

Summer Artist-in-Residence

For the month of July 2018, the gallery was offered to artist Alyssa Bistonath as she created Portals, a documentary/science fiction film about the Guyanese diaspora that was commissioned by Nuit Blanche Scarborough 2018. Bistonath used the gallery as a place to create her astronaut’s suit, a film studio to welcome actors from local Guyanese communities. Portals was projected at a massive scale on the wall of the Scarborough Civic Centre as part of the Nuit Blanche Scarborough exhibition Styll, curated by Alyssa Fearon.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Alyssa Bistonath is a Toronto-based photographer and filmmaker whose work investigates memory, time, and intimacy. The daughter of Guyanese immigrants, Bistonath offers a new nostalgia – images that are simultaneously fresh and evocative of family mementos.

Exhibition

It Can Only Be This Place

Hiba Abdallah, Steven Beckly, Alyssa Bistonath & Patrick Cruz

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Interview with Alyssa Bistonath: Portals

An interview with the Doris McCarthy Gallery's summer 2018 artist-in-residence Alyssa Bistonath on her project 'Portals'

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