Otilia Sabina - Vancouver, BC
Hello there!
My name is Otilia Sabina. I am visual artist and designer born in Bucharest, Romania and raised on the unceded, ancestral, and occupied, traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh and Səl̓ílwətaʔ Nations of the Coast Salish peoples, also known as Vancouver.I graduated with a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2013.
My studio art practice consists of the exploration of space, movement and shape through playful, bold design. The work is inspired and informed by my interest in memory and colour, as a vehicle to the formation of personal identity, values and beliefs.
In my collage work, I re-contextualize images and digital media to create visual artifacts inspired by stories from both my life before and after immigrating to Canada in 1998. Through an iterative process of collage and digital manipulation I aim to bridge both the familiar and unfamiliar aspects of my own history.