About.
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Veronica Spiljak (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Mississauga the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe (Mississaugas of the Credit). She completed her Bachelor's degree at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Sheridan College’s joint Art & Art History program in 2021. Spiljak combines text, drawing, writing, video, installation, and performance to create artworks that facilitate collaborative and immersive experiences. Spiljak has exhibited locally, including shows at the Blackwood Gallery, U of T Art Museum, Women’s Art Association of Canada, Erindale Studio Theatre and the Tiny Fist Gallery. Spiljak is currently an artist resident of the Visual Arts Mississauga Creative Residency program.
Spiljak’s current art practice revolves around text-based art that she derives from her own written poetry and essay prompts that are most prevalent within her video work, photography and textile installations. As an interdisciplinary artist, the use of text, found objects, images, fabric, video, sound and various materials she uses are to recreate intimate spaces and invite room for a narrative to unfold that reflects and connects her experience as a first-generation Polish-Canadian woman. The importance of writing is prevalent in her poetry, performances and self-directed plays when exploring concepts and themes of mental health through interactive dialogue with the audience. As a first-generation Polish-Canadian woman, my work indicates the personal grief left behind in childhood trauma, family dynamics within the home, the ritualization of religion, women’s work within domestic-like spaces. Spiljak recreates these site-specific ephemera to primarily ask how can the idea of space and language bring up familiarity, intimacy or memory? In what ways can recreating, assembling, manipulating ephemera be used as a tool for resistance? contact me: veronicaspiljak@gmail.com
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