Artist books are central to Lesia Maruschak’s practice. Conceived as autonomous works, they bring together photography, archival research, and material process to hold testimony, historical rupture, and inherited memory within the book form.
Developed as limited editions, these books are intended for sustained reading and long-term stewardship within research libraries, museums, and special collections. While some projects emerge from broader photographic or archival works, each book stands independently, shaped by sequence, restraint, and care.
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TRANSLATIONS 19,546, Vol. 1
Artist book | multi-part work | 2026
A testimony-based artist book that translates the accounts of Ukrainian children rescued from Russian captivity through poetic condensation, typographic intervention, and archival process, with initial release of Vol, 1 presented at CODEX 2026.
WO-MAN
Artist book | First issued 2019 · Revised edition 2025
Anchored by an embroidered Ukrainian vyshyvanka, this book traces inheritance, gendered labour, and cultural survival, with the 2025 edition fully re-sequenced and materially reworked in response to shifting historical context.
TRANSFIGURATION — Folio
Folio | 2024
A related folio extending TRANSFIGURATION into a portfolio format, foregrounding individual images and material presence for exhibition, teaching, and special-collections contexts.
THIS LAND
Artist book | 2022
An artist book confronting the internment of Ukrainians in Canada through archival fragments and photographic sequence, transforming historical record into a sustained act of looking.
TRANSFIGURATION
Artist book | 2019
Centered on the testimony of Maria, a survivor of the 1932-1933 famine genocide in Soviet Ukraine - the Holodomor. This book uses photographic sequencing and erasure to reflect the conditions of famine, survival, and historical disappearance.