Hannah Louisy is concerned with the shape and texture of things. Through drawing, video, and installation, they revisit certain textures and symbols like a reflex. These textures include hair, water, grass, clouds, tangled ribbon, as well as fractals found in tree branches, rivers, and highways. They are fascinated by how things visually overlap, interweave, and branch out.
As a response to information overload, gross injustice, and the dread of catastrophe, Hannah uses their practice as a means of processing grief and confusion: creating images and environments that stimulate a sense of meditation. They invent “emotional landscapes” to persuade one's mood, usually in the direction of bliss and catharsis.
Hannah is building a lexicon of symbols that repeat and transform in their drawings, creating narratives by association. There are moments in their drawings and videos where the pictorial plane is interrupted. Onlookers invited into a lush setting are at the same time pushed away by the curious rendering of 3D space. It's not a world you can live in, but maybe one you can revisit in your dreams.
Hannah Louisy is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily with drawing, video, and installation. Born in Toronto, Ontario, they are half St. Lucian and half Ukrainian. They hold a BFA from Concordia University (2024), and currently live and work in Montréal, Québec. Hannah has been a visual storyteller since childhood, and is inspired by the fantasy genre and the natural world. Winner of Conundrum Press’s Mini-comic bursary in 2024, they’re the author of the self-published comic Visions. Hannah has exhibited work in the ISEA International Symposium, Insomniac Film festival, and Art Matters festival.
