Christina Anna Trutiak

© Christina Anna Trutiak, Abrasive Butterfly, 2024. Photo Alexandra Hickox/April Hickox.

Canada
www.xristiak.com

Christina Anna Trutiak is a Toronto-based performance artist and curator with an MFA from the University of Victoria. In addition to her studio practice, she has completed residencies and workshops nationally and internationally. She performed, Untitled (To Carry), at the Venice International Performance Art Week in 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. 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.


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Artist Orange

Just as a performance artist uses their body as their medium, this is a fragrance composed entirely of the orange tree: fruit, leaves, bark, roots, and flowers. Artist Orange performs itself.

Top Notes

neroli, blood orange

Middle Notes

fresh orange juice, petit grain

Base Notes

orange twig, orange seed