Katie Lyle and Shelby Wright

Katie Lyle (born in Victoria, BC, Canada, lives in Toronto, ON, Canada) and Shelby Wright (born and lives in Toronto, ON, Canada) have worked collaboratively since 2015. Together, their work spans visual art, performance, dance, creative writing and installation, addressing themes of cross-disciplinary translation, gesture, close observation and friendship. In 2018, they created A Room to Perform (2018), a work that explores how a structure might actively become part of a performance, letting its shape and form determine the way their movements were obscured and cropped. They continue to develop ideas around framing a performed work with the use of physical objects, props and also by introducing the camera to their work.