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Leena Raudvee is a Toronto based visual and performance artist, focusing on precariousness and uncertainty through the lens of disability and aging. Raudvee’s drawings investigate the performative embodied within the drawing of a line. Her drawings have been exhibited in Drawing 2022 at the Aird Gallery and Drawing Unlimited at the Propeller Gallery. 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 PillOry in 2019 and her performance-based video, making space, was screened in the Photophobia Festival presented by Hamilton Artists Inc 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 multi-faceted residency at the Arcadia Art Gallery, creating the performance and video, Instructions for Interacting with a Chair, and a series of large charcoal drawings in response. Leena Raudvee worked in collaboration with Coman Poon and Brian Smith in 2022 to co-create Wit(h)nessing, an 8-week visual arts research process.