Yuliya Lanina - Breaking the Silence
October 26 – December 11, 2021
Artist Talk
Tuesday, November 9
Weed Lecture Hall #1
3:30 – 5 p.m.
Reception Follows
University Gallery
5 - 6:30 p.m.
In Breaking the Silence, Yuliya Lanina creates a powerful and dissonant series of works that address the isolating and horrific aspects of childhood trauma and sexual abuse. Yuliya writes: “Playful and quirky on the exterior, my work uses whimsy as a device to draw closer inspection, leading to greater awareness and introspection.” Inspired by Surrealism and Dada, Lanina’s work examines the relationship between absurdity, sexuality, and trauma “with a particular focus on physical and psychic reconstruction through reassembling disparate parts.”
Lanina is an interdisciplinary artist whose work exists at the intersection of visual art, performance and technological innovation. Born in Moscow, she arrived in New York in 1990 as a political refugee. She established herself as a pioneering artist on the cutting edge by combining digital technologies with handmade media. Lanina holds an MFA in Combined Media from Hunter College and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from SUNY Purchase College. She is currently Assistant Professor of Practice at the Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies at The University of Texas at Austin.
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