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https://lesiamaruschak.com/
Biografia
Lesia Maruschak overlays and reconfigures
traditional notions of imagery, often using the medium of photography as
the subject itself. Her work frequently explores marginalized histories
and notions of cultural identity. Blurring the lines between painting
and photography, imagery and objecthood, physical and digital her work
volleys between historical traditions and unconventional methods. Her
diverse strategies such as hand sculpturing photographs, embedding paper
with digital technology, and inserting herself into her work as a
rückenfigur subsumed in the grandeur of the Canadian prairie landscape,
anonymous, without identity, are the foci of her practice as she
continues to explore making and being in relation to her lived
experience. From photography to sculpture, text, film, and performance,
her projects involve extensive field research both on and with archives,
individuals, and institutions.
Born in 1961 in Saskatoon, Canada Maruschak currently works and lives
between Alvena and Ottawa. She holds a MA from the University of
Saskatchewan, and a MBA from the University of Ottawa. Her works are
represented in the collections of The National Art Library, Victoria &
Albert Museum in London, Thomas Watson Library at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in
Paris, Boston Athenaeum in Boston, City of Ottawa Art Collection in
Ottawa, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke
University in Durham, Green Library-Special Collections at Stanford
University in Stanford, Rare Books & Special Collections at the Library
of Congress. in Washington, Butler Library-Special Collections at
Columbia University in New York, among many others. Maruschak is also
the founder of the newly formed MENEZVUT Collective, a group of
indigenous and non-indigenous Canadian artists, some emerging and some
of Canada’s most celebrated, manifesting their individual and co-created
responses, to the decolonization of Canadian history, and the ensuing
trauma. Maruschak is currently completing two books concerning Canada’s
first world war internment operations supported by grants from the
Canada First World War Internment Recognition Endowment Council, the
Franko Foundation, the Wasylyk Foundation and the Ukrainian Credit Union
Ltd.
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