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KYLA MALLETT
IN THE BASEMENT (LOVE), 2004

Unique lightjet c-print
Image dimensions 68.6 X 101.6 cm
Image courtesy the artist

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Vancouver artist, Kyla Mallet, (born in Tsawassen in 1976) has received critical attention for exhibitions both nationally and internationally. She has an MFA from UBC and is an instructor at Emily Carr Institute. She has exhibited at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, the Vancouver Art Gallery, ThreeWalls, Chicago and a feature article was published on her work in Canadian Art magazine.  Recently she produced a body of work based on photographs of marginalia, hand-written annotations scribbled in library books, that was the subject of an installation of banners at the Vancouver Public Library and a solo exhibition and publication at Artspeak Gallery. Mallett interprets this activity as an alternative form of dialogue and communication.

Kyla Mallett’s practice consistently examines the intersection of language and culture. Often bringing together the concerns of teens, feminism, and art history, Mallett borrows from the formal aesthetics of 1960s conceptual art and applies pseudo-sociological methods of sampling and archiving to reveal alternative networks of communication within various social milieusPast projects have included a photographic and text series that revealed the desires and perceptions of suburban youth; an audio piece that embedded anonymous gossip in the gallery walls; and a video project that documented adult women telling personal stories of bullying.

This photograph is from a series taken in the basement of a Vancouver coop housing project where teenagers “decorated” the forgotten space with improvised materials and grafitti conversations.