Montreal-based artist Sylvia Trotter Ewens, navigates memory, identity, and the shifting terrain between cultures. Trotter Ewens received her DEC in Fine Arts from Dawson College, followed by a BFA and MFA in Painting at Concordia University. Her work blends architectural aesthetics, ecological discourse, and personal narrative, creating fragmented spaces that reflect shifting landscapes and subtle psychologies.
In “Echoes of Elsewhere”, Trotter Ewens’ fragmented environments are shaped as much by lived experience as by distance and imagination. Born in Honduras, Trotter Ewens was adopted as an infant and has long felt a sense of dual belonging. The works assembled here explore the lingering impressions of environments and relationships that persist across time and were created from photographs taken of both Honduras and Québec—the two sites/distinct geographies merging to reflect Trotter Ewens’ own experience of being “neither completely of here nor there”.
“Echoes of Elsewhere” is currently on display at Plato Gallery until May 30.
