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Throughout her career, Matilda Aslizadeh has developed a dense visual language positioned between photography, video and animation that evokes the complexity and saturation of our contemporary media landscape. Her video installations and photo-based works draw on a vast array of visual influences -both esoteric and popular - to rethink narrative structures that persist in Western culture.

Her large scale productions use compositing techniques ubiquitous in Hollywood filmmaking as well as strategies that harken back to the early days of the “cinema of attractions” to generate fictional landscapes that form the background for storytelling. 

Aslizadeh's work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and film festivals and has been the subject of several solo exhibitions including: Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (2016) Simon Fraser University Gallery (2012) La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse (2009) SKOL Centre des Arts Actuels (2005) Or Gallery (2005) and Artspeak (2003).

Originally from Italy, I left my homeland for Canada in hopes of furthering my professional aspirations.

Familiar with the cultures of both North America and Europe, my artistic perspective occupies the gap between them. I grew up close to the streets and am intimately familiar with the complex and dark realities of urban living in a multi-racial/ethnic/cultural society. 

Furthermore, I am presently living the “reality” of a New Canadian, experiencing on a daily basis the hope and disappointment shared by people caught between worlds.