PAST COFFEE TALK
Archeology of Loss
Marina Leybishkis
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PAST COFFEE TALK
Archeology of Loss
Marina Leybishkis
Join artist Marina Leybishkis on Thursday, June 24th for a coffee-talk on her solo exhibition Archeology of Loss at 4PM ET! RSVP by emailing us at info@baxterst.org.
Archeology of Loss—Leybishkis’s solo exhibition—takes the form of an immersive installation incorporating sculpture, video, and sound, and poses crucial questions around history, migration, and image-making.
The works presented draw upon the artist’s research and work during both her 2020 residency at Baxter St and a 2018–19 Fulbright grant. Leybishkis traveled to Greece, visiting the Moria Reception, Kara Tepe, and Identification Centre on the island of Lesvos, at that time the largest refugee camp in Europe and home to thousands of migrants, many fleeing wars in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq.
Marina Leybishkis is a New York based multimedia interdisciplinary artist who was born and raised in Uzbekistan. She holds a BA in Justice and Humanities Studies from The City University of New York and MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was a recipient of the Fulbright grant for artistic research in 2018-2019.