Lea Ovcina
Printmaking & publications
OCAD University
Specialisms: Printmaking / Textiles /
Location: Toronto, Canada
Lea Ovcina
First Name: Lea
Last Name: Ovcina
Specialisms: Printmaking / Textiles
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My Location: Toronto, Canada
University / College: OCAD University
Course / Program Title: Printmaking & publications
About
Lea Ovčina is a Bosnian Canadian multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of printmaking and textiles processes. The visual concepts in her art are informed by the natural world and themes of memory in its’ various manifestations. Emphasizing our relationships with other people and the objects or environments we surround ourselves with, as they become reflections of our inner values.
This body of work is an exploration into how inherited memory intersects lived memories and relationships. Working through my own distanced relationship with place and belonging, to understand where I fit into my family narrative with limited personal experience of defining a ‘home’ country. Despite often being an integral understanding of oneself, it primarily exists as a notion of absence. A by-product of my family’s varying relationships with leaving ex-Yugoslavia – now Bosnia – has given me agency in building an independent interpretation of where I am from and understanding what my idea of ‘Self’ was built from. The understanding of how one is connected to their past – even one that is not necessarily their own lived experience – falls to the movement of stories and objects passed from distant hands to familiar hands, to one’s own hands.
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