Perspectival

Ela Boyd

Through cinematic framing, Perspectival offers the opportunity to simultaneously view multiple spatial perspectives of the same instance. Temporality is inverted as one wonders- is this a 'flashback’? a dream? foreshadowing? Or are we experiencing parallel moments? The figure in the film becomes a de-centralized presence as her embodied self and reflected self multiply.

Ela Boyd is currently a Visual Art MFA candidate at UCSD. She is originally from Hollywood, CA and received her BFA from California College of Arts in San Francisco. In her work, she explores phenomenological issues with the interplay of light, space and time. Her methodology involves collapsing spatiotemporal modalities using photography, collage, sculpture and new media installation works. Most recently, she has been working with interactive media to fuse various modes of visual perception and offer an experience of a new ontological paradigm. Her work has been exhibited in various galleries and art spaces within California, including LA Center for Digital Art, Lawrence Ascher Gallery, Barnsdall Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and Pharmaka Gallery. In 2005, Boyd attended an artist residency at Est Nord Est in Quebec and has been included International exhibitions in Canada and Portugal.