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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.

CV on request: hello@mariyavasilyeva.com


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