Alysse Lee-Orr

Artist Statement

Alysse Lee-Orr is an interdisciplinary artist working across text, painting, and collage. As she understands it, reality is constructed by interconnected imaginaries or fictions which shape the world around us. These narratives are authored by those in power and thus uphold dominant/hegemonic cultural ideas which support and reinforce capitalism, patriarchy, and the oppression and othering of minority groups. In her practice, the artist works to subvert and destabilise these narratives by creating speculative fictions, or otherworldly imaginaries, which she writes, paints, and collages into being.

This is producing an expansive body of work, futurekind, which is ever evolving and exists in many forms; an artist's book, a soundscape, and the fragments, collages, or assemblages which have emerged as a result of her practice. Within this body of work, themes of utopia, gender, the body, ecology, architecture, and community are explored. Through a post-feminist, and perhaps even post-human, lens, the artist is proposing a utopian future imbued with hope.

Through a continued process of deconstructing and reconfiguring, her artworks are constantly changing, evolving, and in flux, as are the worlds, bodies, and buildings which they describe and which describe them; sites of reworlding, spaces of reclamation, where we might imagine and realise a post-patriarchal society, building new architectures of possibility and constructing a world beyond the confines of the dominant imaginary.