Kevin Conlin, Ammonite Urn (detail), stoneware, 2011, 20"X12"
- Friday, February 6, 2015
- 12:00pm – 1:00pm
- 611 Main Street
An Absent Body of Water by Natalia Lebedinskaia: Friday, February 6, 2015, noon-1 pm at MAWA
Natalia Lebedinskaia will share some of her recent exhibition projects at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, tying them together through research into local geological history. Using a loose framework of an absent body of water and a missing continent, this presentation explores creative non-fiction as a methodology for curatorial research.
-
Natalia Lebedinskaia holds an MA in Art History from Concordia University, where she also received her BFA in Art History and Studio Arts. She has held curatorial and art administration internships at The Banff Centre for the Arts and Walter Phillips Gallery in Banff, Alberta. In 2009, she co-founded Studio Béluga, an exhibition and residency program in Montréal that is run as a self-pedagogical community with a board of artists, art historians and curators. Lebedinskaia has also worked independently on projects and publications for Art Mûr, FOFA Gallery, Les Ateliers Jean Brillant, and Centre des arts actuels Skol, in Montréal.
She is currently the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba in Brandon. Her research focuses on the ethics of exhibition and display, especially as they relate to negotiations of personal memory in the public sphere. Her curatorial approach aims to build communities, both ephemeral and lasting, through exhibitions and programming.