Cindy Blažević is a Canadian-Croatian visual artist whose socially-engaged investigations seek to reveal the intersections of power and exclusion. Photography, writing, performance and installation are a means to bring forward voices, situations and complexity, to engage with people and place, and to generate dialogue and curiosity about the socio-political conditions of our time.
Whether she’s exploring nationalist mythologies or motherhood, penal systems, immigration policies or economic theories of labour, Cindy is drawn toward how power is intertwined in the practice of daily life and in our collective consciousness. Her work, process-based and generative, emphasizes the necessity of acknowledging the multiple truths and narratives within all systems and persons, and how these systems govern and negotiate the known and unknown space between us.
Cindy’s work has been exhibited and awarded internationally. The Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the British Arts Council, the European Cultural Fund, the Open Society Institute and the Toronto Arts Council are among the organizations that have supported her projects. She holds a specialist BA in International Relations from the University of Toronto, and has studied photography at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) and cultural studies at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She currently lives in Toronto.
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