Statement

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​Wilschanski’s primary medium is sculpture, layered with performance and video. Her time-based architectural-garments carefully construct large geometrical forms, evoking frames such as window, book and table. These transformative wearable items the artist enters into, suggest structural shifts in both the artist’s body and the garments. Based on wood or PVC pipe frames, these opaque swathes of material caress her body as they progresses into various forms, gradually revealing several garments sourced from, and returned back into the frame. 

As the artist moves within and reconstructs relation to these fabrics, not only does the form change, but also the appearance of her own body in them, as it (dis)appears in between these layers. The playfulness this setting enables, transforms the appearance of her body; at times it seems diminutive in relation to the structure, and at times consumes it. 

This sophisticated design and mechanism is essentially an extension of her body and reframing of her body, which she considers to be the anchor in her performance pieces. Through her choreography and combination of mediums, Wilschanski examines the notion of functionality and corporeality in an environment she creates.

 

Bio

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Solo Performances / Exhibitions:
14Y (NYC 2024), Parent Company Gallery (NYC 2024), The Border Gallery (NYC 2022), Lonesome Dove Gallery (NYC 2022), mhPROJECTnyc (NYC 2021), Das Schaufenster (Seattle, WA 2021) and A.I.R. Gallery (NYC 2020) 

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Selected Group Performances / Exhibitions:
Essex Flowers Gallery Flower Festival (NYC 2024), Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery (NYC 2024), Long Story Short Gallery (NYC 2021), The New School XReality Center (NYC 2021), Spring/Break Art Show (NYC 2019) Movement Research at The Judson Church (NYC 2019), A4 Art Museum (Luxelakes China 2018) and Aesthetics & Bias, Arsenal Gallery, Poznan (Poland 2018) 

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Awards:
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship: Craft/Sculpture (2023), ILYSM Artist Grant (2020) and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant (2020).

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Residencies;
LABA House of Study (NYC 2024), Monira Foundation Performance Residency (NJ 2023), Ponderosa Artist Residency (Stolznhagen, Germany 2022), Lake Studio Dance Residency (Berlin, Germany 2014) Aesthetics & Bias (Wroclaw, Poland, 2014) and TWIS Exploring the Human Voice in Motion (Berlin, Germany, 2014).

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Commissions:
Tending To Seed Of Sweetness, Sukkah, The Neighbourhood (NYC 2024) and Parochet, Srugim S03 (Jerusalem, Palestine / Israel 2010).

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Education: 
MFA Hunter College, Combined Media (NYC 2019). BFA Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Ceramic and Glass (Jerusalem Palestine / Israel 2014) including a student exchange semester at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston MA 2012)

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Publications:​

Hannah Phang, What Would The Egg Do?, Crystals. Clits. Climate, Podcast, video, USA (2021). Jenna Elizabeth Gonzalez  ILYSM zine, USA (2020). Glenn Adamson, Crafts Magazine, UK (2020) Willyi Wang, 儿童疗养院, Grace, China (2018) Galerii Miejskiej Arsenał w Poznaniu „Estetyka i uprzedzenia”   Magazyn Szum, Poland (2018) Aesthetics & Bias Catalog  (Poland,2018) Dario Rutigliano, Katherine Williams, LandEscape Art Review, ISSUU, UK (2015)

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