Hello everyone! My
name is Mariya and I am a video and performance artist. I am 29 years old from
Kyiv, Ukraine, living and working between Austria and Germany. I have studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in
Munich and University of Applied Arts in Vienna. My artistic practice includes
live performances and video collages. In it, I portray myself in different
roles and scenarios, and reflect on topics such as social power structures and
their manifestations in private life and body politics. Through my experiences
as a Ukrainian immigrant in Western Europe, I have questioned multiple modes of
my own identity, especially as a woman. I'm trying to figure out how dealing
with sexuality, religion, racial norms, and archetypes affects female
embodiment.
As the only
performer in my productions, I play various roles and film myself alone.
Throughout the production, my main focus is the confrontation with my own body
and its fragility. By digitally multiplying, amplifying, deforming, and
dehumanizing my body, I transform myself into an object, thereby enforcing the
common abuses of power in society.
