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"Echoes of Elsewhere" by Sylvia Trotter Ewens at PLATO Gallery

Come enjoy art, wine, and conversation with the artist and fellow art lovers at the opening of Sylvia Trotter Ewens’s debut solo exhibition at PLATO, 'Echoes of Elsewhere.' In 'Echoes of Elsewhere,' fragments of Honduras—the birthplace Trotter Ewens shares with her mother—surface alongside constructed environments in her home-city of Montreal. ‘Working with images of Honduras,’ the artist shares, ‘I experience both connection and distance: though I originated from there, much like in Montreal’s tropical gardens, I can imitate these landscapes but cannot fully inhabit them or feel the immediacy of the environment as someone embedded in it would.’ Like transplanted gardens removed from their origins and reassembled under new conditions, these spaces become composite—layered and continually shifting—echoes of elsewhere. Memory, absence, and connection quietly shape them in an ongoing act of recomposition, piecing together a sense of place and self.
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