Migrant Creatures examines the emotional repercussions of new environments and the quiet solitary states within a migrant life. Through photographs and installation Yuula Benivolski presents the process of adaptation and its contemplative moments, as experienced by a single figure within the landscape.
Fictional rituals and survivalist traditions come together within a human subject whose existence is paradoxical: her body is firmly planted in the physical world while her mind wanders within the private realm of a self defined memory and history.
Biography
Yuula Benivolski was born in 1980 in Moscow USSR, grew up in Northern Israel and currently lives and works between Toronto and Montreal. She completed a BFA in Photography at the Ontario College of Art and Design and is currently completing her MFA at Concordia University. Her work has been exhibited in Canada and internationally.
Yuula likes to spend her summers in the wilderness of the Toronto Islands where she lives in a large sunny studio and collects feathers in the early mornings. She works with sculpture, photographs, video and installation and is interested in migration, tradition, ritual, acclimatization and survival. |
