In her artistic practice, Wiola Ujazdowska (b. 1988 Toruń, Poland) balances between socially engaged art, happenings and videos, focusing on the group that she is most familiar with - working class migrants from Eastern Europe. She is inspired by anthropology and literature studies and focused on the linguistic processes of othering, post-humanistic perspectives on the other and philosophical concepts of identity. Her practice is a form of rejection of traditional way of art making in favour of collective creation and recycling. Wiola has been based in Reykjavík since 2014. Since then, she has been active on the Icelandic art scene, engaging in a number of different projects. She holds an M.A in Art Theory from Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland where she also studied at the Department of Fine Arts. Her works have been shown in the U.S.A, Portugal, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Iceland.
