BIO : Kandis Friesen

Le travail de Kandis Friesen est ancré dans le langage de la diaspora, les traductions dispersées, et les formes désintégrées d’archives. Puisant dans les géographies mennonite russe, ukrainienne et ex-soviétique, ses compositions interdisciplinaires se construisent à partir d’incarnations architecturales, matérielles et spectrales de l’exil, amplifiant à la fois de petites et innombrables histoires.

Kandis Friesen’s work is anchored in diasporic language, dispersed translations, and disintegrating archival forms. Drawing on Russian Mennonite, Ukrainian, and former Soviet geographies, her interdisciplinary compositions build from architectural, material, and spectral inhabitations of exile, amplifying minute and myriad histories at once.
Her work has been presented at Lux  (London), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), Vox (Montréal), and Eastern Edge (St. John's); recent screenings include FIFA (Montréal), Traverse Vidéo (Toulouse), Jihlava (Jihlava), MIX:NYC (NYC), Athens Digital Arts Festival (Athens), and WNDX Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg).
She has received several grants and awards, and her videos are distributed by Groupe Intervention Vidéo in Montréal.

Kandis recently won the Images Festival's Steam Whistle Homebrew Award for the collaborative video Tape #158: Document 2B with Toronto-based artist Nahed Mansour.