Maria Flawia Litwin is a visual artist who grew up in both Poland and Australia, straddling the Iron Curtain. She has spent the last 18 years living and working in Toronto. Encounters with communist and consumer ideologies within social and educational structures have made Litwin sensitive to the fluid and shifting nature of belief systems. She is particularly concerned with the way changes in ideology manifest themselves in her figurative and literal environment. Marxism, feminism and humour have greatly impacted her art production. Although trained as a sculptor, Litwin’s work is not medium specific and takes the form of textiles, data collecting, performance, acting, video, photography, and fiction writing.
- Keywords :
- art historical
- autobiographical
- body
- cinematic
- collaborative
- conceptual
- construction
- craft
- data-driven
- death
- digital
- feminist
- figurative
- folkloric
- handmade
- humourous
- institutional critique
- landscape
- language+text
- memory
- mortality
- nature
- nomadic
- paradoxical
- pattern
- performative
- poetic
- site-specific
- socio-political
- surreal
- uncanny
Last Update:December 23, 2015