Savanna Yaremchuk is an artist based in on Vancouver Island, Canada. Savanna grew up overseas in Trinidad and Tobago as well as Argentina, then returned to Vancouver Island for her secondary education. She is currently persuing a Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in Visual Arts. Striving for an emotional and physical reaction from the audience, Savanna Yaremchuk evkes an uncomfortable awareness of the viewers' physicality. Using the female experience of her own body to comment on the innate femininity within the abject, Yaremchuk reclaims the grotesque as a site of resistance against patriarchal norms of femininity.
My practice is based around evoking an emotional reaction in the viewer. Through my sculptural practice, I use abjection of the human body through my main material, human hair. I have developed a multitude of techniques in order to bind the hair into a pliable material. I have also developed a wet felting technique that is similar to felting wool but with human hair. I source the hair from multiple local hair salons who reluctantly give me what would otherwise be thrown out.
