Alison Postma is a Toronto-based artist whose practice moves fluidly between photography, video, and sculpture. A graduate of the University of Guelph (2016) and recipient of the AIMIA/AGO Photography Prize Scholarship (2015), she has exhibited nationally and internationally and has completed multiple Toronto-based residencies. Postma’s work is rooted in an ongoing investigation of how objects behave, communicate, and transform when removed from their usual contexts. Working with still-life arrangements, modified found materials, and small performative gestures, she explores the slippage between the three-dimensional world and its two-dimensional representations. Her recent series engages directly with the materials and processes of art handling—foam, tape, cardboard, padding, plastic—elevating utilitarian supports into subjects of sculptural and photographic inquiry. Leaning into the uncanny and the subconscious, Postma constructs scenes that feel both deliberate and accidental: objects propped, wrapped, balanced, suspended, or partially concealed. Through these interventions, familiar materials become estranged, inviting the viewer to reconsider how meaning is assigned to everyday things. “My work is currently exploring getting to know objects,” she writes. “Through arranging and photographing still lifes, performing small gestures captured with video, or modifying found objects, I learn about objects with my hands and body.” This tactile approach—part choreography, part cataloguing—reveals a sustained curiosity about the agency of objects and the quiet narratives embedded in the spaces between them.
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