About.
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Veronica Spiljak (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Mississauga, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe First Nations. She completed her BFA at the University of Toronto Mississauga in 2021 and her MFA at York University in 2024. Spiljak has exhibited locally, including shows at the Blackwood Gallery, U of T Art Museum, Women’s Art Association of Canada, the Tiny Fist Gallery, OCAD University, Propeller Gallery and Visual Arts Mississauga. She has also been granted the winner of the 2023 MARTY awards in the Multimedia Visual Arts category and the Annie Smith Graduate Scholarship from Sheridan College.
Spiljak uses weaving methodologies, our personal archives among the discourse of grief, trauma, the domestic space, ritual, religion and gendered domestic labour. Her recent projects explore subverting and incorporating found images, video, Slavic motifs, text and/or text(iles) in a disembodied search for identity, reconnection and softness. Through works of embroidery, image-making, performance, installation, Spiljak aims to include a “distraction-as-ceremony” based methodology, similar to weaving methodologies, as a form of reconnection and mindfulness of letting ourselves wander in the present. Spiljak recreates site-specific ephemera to primarily ask how can the idea of space and language bring up familiarity, intimacy or memory? contact me: [email protected]
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