bio
Eugenia Reznik is a Ukrainian-French-Canadian visual and media artist. With a dual academic background—a master’s degree in applied mathematics (University of Kyiv) and two master’s degrees in visual and media arts (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)—she also holds a PhD in art studies and practices from UQAM. Through a research-creation approach, she combines sociological perspectives, documentary practices, digital arts, and botanical research to explore issues of uprooting, memory transmission, and the relationships between the migration of people and plants.
Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and events across Canada, Europe, and more recently, the United States. She has participated in several artist residencies throughout Canada, the United States, and France, and has received multiple research and creation grants, including from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture, and the Longueuil Arts Council in Canada.
Alongside her artistic practice, she contributes to university-level art education, particularly at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and the Université de Montréal (UdM). She is frequently invited to participate as an artist or speaker at various academic events and has extensive experience in cultural mediation with numerous organizations and museums, both in Canada and Europe.
artist statement
For several years Eugenia Reznik has been interested in the stories of uprooted people, regardless of the social, economic, cultural or emotional context. Drawing on her own experience, she realizes that uprooting generates multiple feelings: lack, loss, anger, nostalgia. She works on the following questions: what forms does the feeling of uprooting take? How does it change over time? How does this feeling reflect in the narrative? Its objective is to capture its traces by materializing them in visual projects in which the work is considered as an element of analysis of this societal phenomenon. The artist collects testimonies from different people met through residencies and at random from everyday life. Stories recorded in video, sound or text form have a central place in video or sound installations where documentary pieces (interviews) intersect a visual production (drawings, paintings, video and sound installation, digital devices).