Survival and destruction, resilience and resistance are significant themes within Trutiak’s practice. Trutiak performs grotesque yet fragile interpretations of the uncanny. She creates psycho-spatial environments consisting of slightly skewed hyper realistic images. Body parts, sounds, landscapes and objects feed her unusual assortment of counter-repressive gestures that revolve around permutations of psychic and social repressions.

During her residency, Trutiak will sculpt, mold and cast objects that will be used in a durational performance on the beach. This site-specific performance will involve props, special effects, sound and potential audience interaction.

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Christina Anna Trutiak is a Toronto-based artist with an MFA from the University of Victoria. Trutiak’s practice teeters between video, sound, performance, photography, installation, and sculpture. She performed, To Carry From Above, at the Venice International Performance Art Week, 2019, with support from the Canada Council for the Arts. Trutiak was a selected participant for The Power Plant’s RBC Emerging Artist Network, 2022-2023. More about Christina’s work can be viewed at http://www.xristiak.com.