Natasha Boškić – Artist Statement

I have always enjoyed creating something with my hands, from cooking to crafting, sawing, knitting, weaving… I like bringing poetry into every day in fun and engaging way, so that we can enjoy the beauty of words even when doing the most ordinary tasks, like walking, eating or sleeping. I am interested in technology as a new landscape for literary expression, so I experiment with new and old media forms. I am fascinated with the ways our virtual and physical worlds interact and I use different opportunities to combine analog and digital technologies to create art.

The “Journey” exhibition is a result of my latest poetry weaving projects, where I explore the intersection of fibres and words, tactile and virtual. I see the world as a constant interplay between forces, the exchange of layers of reality that meet and dissolve in time and space. This engagement creates narratives and poetic ripples.

The wall hangings present fragments of different journeys, both physical and imaginary, telling stories of lost love, friendships and memories. They reveal a sense of displacement and erasure, loss and discovery of people and places, heritage, traditions and cultures.

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Natasha Boškić lives and works in Vancouver. A long history of family storytelling, traditions and legends as well as her personal life experience and current times have shaped and directed Natasha’s craft. She uses recycled textile and yarn in combination with new materials purchased in different places she has visited to create something new.

She has showcased her work in a number of installations and exhibitions, throughout Europe and Canada. Her latest exhibition was Neither here nor there, but everywhere. Neither then nor now, but forever in Port Coquitlam in Sep 2023-Jan 2024). Her “Birds’ song” weaving is currently at Arts 2024, Surrey Art Gallery (May-July 2024). Her work will be a part of the group exhibition at the Newton Cultural Centre (NCC) in August this year.

Natasha moved to Canada with her two children from war-torn Serbia in 1999, during a NATO aerial bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She obtained a Ph.D. in Language and Literacy at UBC, with a focus on ethics and narratives in gameworlds. She works as a Director of Learning Design and teaches at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver.