PLATO

Sylvia Trotter Ewens

Echoes of Elsewhere

April 24 – May 30, 2026

PLATO is excited to present Sylvia Trotter Ewens’ inaugural solo exhibition with the gallery, Echoes of Elsewhere, opening with a public reception on Friday, April 24, from 6-8 PM. It will remain on view through May 30.

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In Echoes of Elsewhere, Honduran-Canadian painter Sylvia Trotter Ewens presents a deeply personal body of work that navigates memory, identity, and the shifting terrain between cultures. Through layered, atmospheric paintings, she constructs fragmented environments shaped as much by lived experience as by distance and imagination.

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Born in Honduras and raised in Montreal after being adopted as an infant, Trotter Ewens has long experienced a sense of dual belonging. Familiar places surface unexpectedly within unfamiliar ones—a fleeting recognition of “elsewhere” within the present. “Echoes,” for Trotter Ewens, are the lingering impressions of environments and relationships that persist across time. Drawing from photographs taken while walking and documenting both Honduras and Quebec, she digitally collages composite landscapes before translating them into paint. These constructed sites merge and juxtapose distinct geographies, reflecting the artist’s experience of being “neither completely of here nor there,” but continually building a sense of place in between.

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