Lesia Miga



is an artist and curatorial practitioner working in Toronto. Her practice explores the cyclical nature of life and grief, family archives, relationship systems, and the interplay of absence and presence. The themes in her work emerge from discussions, play, rituals, and lived experiences. 
 

Exhibitions
What the Creek Told Us
Ghost Body
handheld handmade handoff
In the Absence of Presence


Bodies of Work
For Your Records
Garlic Mustard, Dame’s Rocket
Hanlan’s Bones
Everything is dying slower than me
In the Absence of Presence

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Ghost Body
The Plumb
Oct 25- Nov 24, 2024


Ghost Body explores the various ways ghosts, or "ghostliness” manifests aesthetically in visual art and popular culture by bringing together a diverse group of eleven artists. Although works in the show range in media from textiles to data collection to video installation, many tropes such as distorted or translucent human bodies, disembodied hands, and slow uncanny movement, among others, persist across the works presented. Where do these tropes, many of which have endured through hundreds of years of ghost stories, come from? And, what can their aesthetic traditions teach us about fear? 

Three accompanying screenings of ghost films will take place at the plumb over the course of the exhibition.

Exhibition curated by Ciar O'Mahony
Film program curated by Joshua Rogin

Featuring work by:
Alicia Wright
Brandon Dalmer 
Emerald Repard-Denniston & Olivia Aguiar
Eric Chengyang 
James Rollo 
Joshua Rogin 
Khadijah Morley 
Lesia Miga 
Onyeka Oduh 
Sarah Zanchetta 
Vanessa Rieger 
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