Sylvana dAngelo is an artist, designer and programer who works with form and technology to create cross platform projects. She studies the human condition and endeavours to understand culture through superstition by questioning the nature of existance. Blurring the lines between what is real and what could be real her work is a visual study of idealism and the underlying interconnected evolution of progress.
Chaotic Rhythms is an exhibition of sonic works that explore the various entanglements and intersections of gender and domesticity, work and home, the body and the environment.
Against the backdrop of COVID-19 and its many social and personal complications, we encouraged the artists to step out of their comfort zones and utilize the sonic as a medium through which disruption, distortion, or duality creates a framework for sound pieces within the domestic experience.
Mothered Spaces
behind the lake between us
an unconcious air
Design & Interaction Sylvana dangelo
shimmeringhorizons.orgalleryprojects.org
2021
Shimmering Horizons is a partnership between the High Commission of Canada in the United Kingdom and Or Gallery Vancouver, Canada.
Originally conceived as an exhibition for Canada Gallery at Canada House in London, the project has been adapted for online presentation due to the coronavirus pandemic. This virtual exhibition presents works by Asinnajaq, Meagan Musseau, Marina Roy, Tania Willard, and Elizabeth Zvonar alongside texts by curator Laurie White, interviews with the artists, and a zine response by artist and curator Whess Harman.
Curated by Alex Grundenfelder
Concept & development Sylvana d'Angelo
2018
Spiritual Pilgrimage, Second Edition
Spiritual Pilgrimage is an online photographic exhibition that cannot be viewed in its entierity unless you print it as a zine in A4 format.
This project is a website and publication derived of images submitted online by participating artists from Vancouver and South Korea. Images were curated directly from a live folder and feed this site where they are randomly formatted for publication. Print copies of the publication by hitting Command+P and receive three pages of images to be saddle stiched.
2018
Sylvana dAngelo with
Bryce Kristopher Paul Agecoutay & Minimal Violence
Part of Happenstance by Decoy
Modern Psychologists would categorize these types of occurrences as apophina, the mistaken detection of a pattern or meaning in random or meaningless data, however abnormal physical experiences can connect us to a deeper self, perhaps even to a place of greater understanding.
It is this profound scene of wonder that defies our rational scenes and opens us up to a metaphorical world where we can sense the pre-colonial values embedded within our urban public spaces.
Preformance Images
Publisher: Zine Club
Art & Design: Sylvana d'Angelo
Text: Christopher Laursen
2019
Paradoxically, a social stigma discourages “modern” people from openly talking about paranormal experiences. Many fear that others will question the reality of their experience. They fear being labelled as “crazy.” Here, twenty -three unnamed individuals share a fragment from a paranormal experience they had, and how that moment transformed their way of being, how they think about things. The paranormal finds people. And when they pay attention, their lifeworlds expand.
2015
Video Fag, Toronto ON
Dynamo Art Association, Vancouver BC
The initial investigations into SRA were conducted by anthropologists and sociologists, who failed to find evidence of SRA actually occurring; instead they concluded that SRA was a result of rumors and folk legends that were spread by “media hype, Christian fundamentalism, mental health and law enforcement professionals and child abuse advocates” (The Dilemma of Ritual Abuse: Cautions and Guides for Therapists. Fraser, GA - 1997).
Nonetheless Satanic Ritual Abuse became a moral panic that seemed to distort normal childhood fears and fantasies into a so-called crime epidemic that was never able to produce evidence of criminal activity.
Exhibition Images
seems similar, but different in some ways
