Dorota Dziong is a Polish-Canadian multidisciplinary artist currently staying in Norway. Her work includes painting, drawing, video, animation, and site-responsive installation. She explores the human need for containment, both physical shelter for our bodies and containers for the things we collect.

Examining real and imaginary spaces, Dziong builds a personal universe where playfulness and absurdity become ways of navigating complexity. She uses drawing and painting to create installations and stop-motion animations that evoke set-building, collecting, and transience. Having emigrated and moved many times, she has developed an interest in the spaces within which we live and exist in and the objects we acquire and store.

Layered and maximalist, her work embraces imperfection and impermanence through the use of discarded materials such as cardboard with a DIY aesthetic, employing collaging methods that recall Dadaism. Within these environments, flawed creatures move through unstable worlds, while drawings spread across walls like living organisms.

At GlogauAIR, Dziong is developing a site-responsive installation and animation that explore shelter, boundaries, nostalgia, and the struggle between personal and collective histories. Through this project, she hopes to continue to evolve ways of combining media toward installation-based storytelling that embrace complexity and contradiction.