BELONGING: somewhere/nowhere (2016), a photographic series featuring barren prairie landscapes through which I hoped to convey the sense of isolation and abandonement my ancestors first experienced coming to Canada in 1896.
INTERVIEWS (2)
EXHIBITIONS (6)
2017 KRAÏNA: i am the land, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2017 KRAÏNA: i am the land, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 KRAÏNA: i am the land, Odessa, Ukraine
2017 KRAÏNA: i am the land, Lviv, Ukraine
2017 MY CANADA: City of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
2017 KRAÏNA: My Canada, CONTACT Scotiabank Photography Festival, KUMF Gallery. Toronto, Canada
TEXTS (2)
PETER LINDBERGH, Talk to Me, KRAÏNA: I am the land
MELANIE MCWHORTER, An Untold Story, KRAÏNA: I am the land
POSTER PROJECT (2)
Working with London-based graphic designer Sarah Boris, Maruschak wanted to signify the importance of the term Holodomor and its absence from modern day English language dictionaries. She arrived at a definition implicating the state’s role in this brutal historic event. Using the colors of Ukraine’s flag, two posters were designed. They were made available for all visitors to the premiere exhibition of Project MARIA in Ukraine, National Museum of the Holodomor Genocide, Kyiv. (2020).
AWARDS (11)
2020 Project MARIA, Winner Architecture of Memory, Landskrona Fotofestival, Landskrona, Sweden
2019 MARIA Shortlist Prix du Livres, Recontres d’Arles, Arles, France
2019 MARIA, Winner Experimental Category, Kyiv Arsenal International Book Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 MARIA Grand Prix, Best Book Award, Kyiv Arsenal International Book Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 MARIA Athens Photography Festival, Shortlisted
2019 MARIA The Director’s Choice Award, CENTER Review Santa Fe, New Mexico
2017 Hariban Benrido Collotype Shortlisted, Japan
2018 MARIA Biennal Grant, Shortlisted
2018 MARIA 12th Pollux Award, Series Winner, Human Rights and Segregation
2018 12th Pollux Award, Honorable Mention, Documentary and Reportage
2018 12th Pollux Award, Honourable Mention, Digital Manipulation
BOOKS (2)
MARIA
LIMITED EDITION AND SPECIAL COLLECTORS EDITION
TRANSFIGURATION
RARE ARTISTS MAKING OF
TRANSFIGURATION
RARE ARTISTS BOOK
TEXTS (17)
THE GUARDIAN, You Must Remember This
ALISON NORDSTROM From Ashes, TRANSFIGURATION
AMY PARISH TRANSFIGURATION, LENSCULTURE
MARY ANNE REDDING Curatorial Essay
ROBERTO MUFFOLETTOP roject MARIA, Project VASA
SABINE TANOVIC Interspersed Memory, TRANSFIGURATION
MARIA KARINA BOJIKIAN Maria, THE EYES
Alison Nordström From Ashes, Book Arts arts du livre Canada
Gabriela Cendoya Photobooks of 2019
MARY ANNE REDDING, CURATORIAL ESSAY
JUNE CHAU, AWARD RABBLE
MARIA KARINA BOJIKIAN, MARIA, THE EYES
Memorial Victims Holodomor, MARIA
Yogurt Magazine, Italy
Youthpassageways
DODHO, TRANSIFGURATION, Spain
Maxine Watts Lenscratch, RECLAIM PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL
SPONSOR Project MARIA Tour of Ukraine 2020-2023
«This Land is My Land» moves fluidly between archival photographs and records, my own original text, and appropriated images from my father’s archive of Super 8 films. Born in Canada, I am a descendant of Ukrainian immigrants who arrived in 1896 in search of a better life. From 1914-1920, Canada rolled out an assault on ethnocultural communities who originated from the belligerent Central Powers, enemies of the British Empire. 8,579 men, women and children were imprisoned without trial. A majority were Ukrainian.
I was almost sixty, when I learn of this atrocity. In making this project I set out not to save the collapsed dreams of my ancestors weighed down by barbed wire and armed guards, nor to create an evidentiary trail of a story little known, but rather to construct a psychic history, to imagine the lives lived, represent trauma, and to resurrect ancestors in an effort to appreciate my place within the larger political, cultural and historical narrative of Canada and my diasporic community.
Conceived as a book project (unpublished) this exhibition consists of pigment prints and a film titled «Oh Canada! Oh Canada!». The accompanying artist’s book, «This Land» is held in esteemed collection in the US.
