Ulvi Haagensen’s practice explores the boundaries between art and everyday life. With a background in drawing and sculpture, her work investigates the lines and overlaps between art and everyday life. Through art-making and performances that centre around mundane domestic tasks she merges embodied practice with the notion of the bricoleuse, an inventive maker who works with whatever is available. In order to unsettle the rigidity of lines that separate and divide she blurs and confuses the borders between art objects and functional objects, the overlooked and noticed, and the ordinary and the extraordinary,
Ulvi was born Sydney, Australia, studied at City Art Institute (BA), Randwick TAFE (Jewellery Design Certificate), COFA–UNSW (MFA) and is currently a PhD candidate at Estonian Academy of Arts. She has been based in Estonia since 1999 but travels to Sydney, every now and again. In 2018 she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. Ulvi Haagensen has shown work in Australia, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, South Korea and Sweden, and her work is held in public collections in Australia and Estonia. |