Christy Chudosnik

Honours

My practice is charged with a heightened sense of urgency to articulate the reverberations of Russia’s war in Ukraine from the perspective of a Ukrainian in the diaspora. I am fiercely dedicated to the restoration and preservation of Ukrainian culture, at a time when it is actively being erased. My practice seeks to layer earthen and translucent materials directly into various substrates; as a way to embed modes of storying that reflects a revival of cultural practices. Active states of ritual and memorialization offerings, mobilize works through additional gestures of performance. In an attempt to activate filmic sites as a real time working response that aims to calcify, react and evidence war crimes of the ongoing atrocities that Russia continually perpetrates against Ukraine.