September 7, 2019 – December 15, 2019
Leah Dyjak received their MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. They are currently a director of photography on a docu-series created by writer, director, and producer Joey Soloway in addition to other projects. Their work is in multiple private collections and has been acquired by the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University. In 2022 they received the prestigious Howard Foundation Grant through Brown University to fund their documentary film, As we play god. Recent publications include The Architectural Review, London UK, and The Leonardo Journal of Art and Science, MIT Press. Dyjak is represented by the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown Massachusetts. Leah is working on a feature-length documentary about rising water, failing infrastructure, and coastal restoration projects along the Gulf Coast.
Round 12: Base Camp by Massachusetts based artist Leah Dyjak. For this installation, Dyjak questions the structure and authority of maps as pre-constructed realities. By placing semi-transparent images in wooden markers, Base Camp imitates the language of visual signage and guides. Held up by flood prevention bags and illuminated by floodlights at night, the kiosks function as a meditation on water and collective fatigue in negotiating impending ecological collapse and mass displacement.
Leah Dyjak is an interdisciplinary, lens-based artist splitting their time between Massachusetts and elsewhere.Their site-specific work combines performance, labor, film, and photography to explore how generations of human use affect the ecologies of the place. Dyjak is an Assistant Professor of Photography and Video at Wheaton College in Massachusetts and was recently a recipient of a Goldfarb fellowship at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program.