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Dagmara Genda

Dagmara Genda is an artist and writer. Her publications include Border Crossings, Canadian Art, esse, and C Magazine. She has written numerous catalogue essays for public galleries and artist-run centers, and served as editorial chair at BlackFlash Magazine. Genda's art has been shown at the Walter Phillips Gallery, Esker Foundation, Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener + Area Biennial (2014), as well as numerous public and private venues across Canada. Over the past two years, Genda has been making work in various residencies, nationally and internationally, including China, the UK, and the US.

Reviews• February 29, 2020

Anna Oppermann Looks Down

By Dagmara Genda

In 1979 at a University of Kansas conference, a remarkably contemporary thesis about the Venus of Willendorf and other similar Upper Paleolithic “goddess” figurines…

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Reviews• May 17, 2016

Troubling Self-Care in a Selfie World: The Photographs of Karen Asher

By Dagmara Genda

Karen Asher has always photographed people, from those she knows intimately to the strangers she meets in passing. As portraits, they fall within an…

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Reviews• October 5, 2015

A New Level of Anxiety in Derek Liddington

By Dagmara Genda

After seeing Derek Liddington’s solo show at aka artist-run in Saskatoon, I immediately went home to reread the first article I wrote on his…

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Features• July 29, 2015

Picturing Nothing: Reading the Drawings of Sophie Jodoin Through the Words of Samuel Beckett

By Dagmara Genda

Four square all light sheer white blank planes all gone from mind. Never was but grey air timeless no sound figment the passing light….

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Reviews• June 29, 2015

View from Here: On the Contingency of Sight in Wanda Koop

By Dagmara Genda

The emphatic capitalization of VIEW from HERE, Wanda Koop’s recent solo exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, implies an urgent specificity that is never…

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