About

Artist Statement

“My work is a collection of constant experimentation and experiences in conversation with each other, informing one another. I hold a leery fondness for [hi]stories, I can distrust yet appreciate the grand narrative. In seeing the pit of undoing, its purpose, and patterns I trust potential, transformation, and vision. ”

Bio

Melissa Ceccovilli Iza (alter ego: ‘Sofoniza’, or simply just ‘Mel’), is a Peruvian-Canadian multimedia artist with a penchant for the idiosyncratic residing in Hamilton, Ontario. Her practice extends from printmaking, sculpture, framing, textile, painting, illustration, photography, and digital rendering; engaging in themes of identity and memory, resistance, grief, and the body through visual narrative. She is interested in investigating the western conventions and controls- both systemic and interpersonal- surrounding intersecting systems of colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism as well the boundaries of obligation. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Fine Arts  from McMaster University’s School of the Arts.