Leena Raudvee
Leena Raudvee is a Toronto based visual and performance artist, focusing on precariousness and uncertainty through the lens of disability and aging.
Leena Raudvee’s drawings investigate the performative embodied within the drawing of a line. Her drawings have been exhibited in numerous juried shows including Drawing 2022 at the John B. Aird Gallery, Drawing Unlimited at the Propeller Gallery and In the Picture: Portraits of These Times at Gallery 1313 in Toronto. Her work was part of Unpacking Pandemic Pondering online at OCADU and Gallery 1313 and was included in the Rendezvous with Madness Festival presented by Workman Arts in 2021.
In performance, she has been exploring the relation between her drawing practice and her daily performance, as performance art, of the basic acts of mobility. She performed “Teetering on an Edge” for Pi*llOry at TMAC in Toronto in 2019 and her performance-based video, “making space for the fumble, the fall: drawing a line”, was screened in the Photophobia: Contemporary Moving Image Festival presented by Hamilton Artists Inc. and Hamilton Art Gallery in 2020. “Precarious Gestures”, her performance as video, was curated by Critical Design Lab for #CripRitual at the Doris McCarthy Gallery in 2022.
In 2023, Raudvee continued this work in“Precarious Lines”, a residency at The Arcadia Art Gallery in Toronto and created the performance, “Interacting with a Chair”, a series of large charcoal drawings in response and several videos with videographer Alexandra Gelis.
As Co-Artistic Director of ARTIFACTS, a performance art company formed by Pam Patterson and Leena Raudvee, she has performed and exhibited collaboratively for over 30 years. In 2017 ARTIFACTS performed in “Listening: On the Architecture of Aging” for the Made of Walking festival in La Romieu, France.