THE SELF COLLECTIVE

Sabrina Chamberland is an Ottawa-based experimental photographer currently completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Ottawa. Notions of abjection, posthumanism, and subjectivity inform in large part how Chamberland approaches her subjects, while her photographs further aim to question notions of gender, identity, technology, and ultimately, the human condition. Her works have been included in exhibitions in Ottawa and Toronto, notably a permanent installation at University of Ottawa. Chamberland is among the fifteen national finalists for the 2015 Aimia AGO Photography Scholarship Prize, second prize recipient of the 2015 Jacqueline Fry Scholarship, as well as the first prize recipient of the 2014 Figureworks Annual Award.

R∆DCHUK∆ is a name used by Colombian born artist Alejandra Velasquez Machuca, currently based out of Ottawa while completing the BFA program at U of Ottawa. R∆DCHUK∆'s work is focused on identity building and often has an autobiographical line flowing through it. R∆DCHUK∆ is part of the R∆DCHILD Collective and bases much of her work in collaborative art, often merging the artist and the observer. 

After 15 years in Toronto, Kathleen moved to Leeds to work and live in a biosphere where space is large and distraction minimum.  Her work includes assemblage, installation, collage, painting, drawing, video. Her practice has a starting point in everyday experience, and attempts to make the familiar unfamiliar as a method of questioning personal and shared cultural experiences. Kathleen works with traditional materials as well as found objects to reconstruct narratives, using the language and history the materials offer.

Katarina Tkaczyszyn’s work is realized in a diverse and often unconventional range of media, including installations, sculpture, video and performance. Katarina started her career making visceral public work in 2012 that focused on pressing active interventions with object and subject. Since the beginning of 2013, her work has moved increasingly towards large-scale installations and performances that aim to engage the viewer in conflicting emotions of desire and revulsion, anxiety and fascination. Her interest in philosophy has lead her to address epistemological and ethical questions, and there are often multiple conceptual components active in her work.

Mercedes Ventura is a multidiciplinary artist based in Ottawa, Ontario. In Mercedes' work, she explores ideas of identity, culture and nature. Mercedes is working towards a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Ottawa in hopes of graduting in 2017.