Maria Bastashevski, *State Business-Chapter III*, (2015)
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Mari Bastashevski
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Mari Bastashevski

(b.1980 St. Petersburg, Russia) is an artist based in Switzerland. Her work converges on investigative research, art, and journalism, deliberately blurring the boundaries between these practices. Bastashevski makes installations that combine texts, images, and documents to explore questions of secrecy and access to information, and their intersection with the systems of state and corporate power.

Bastashevski received a BA in Political Science and Art History from Copenhagen University and a MA in photography. Her work has appeared in Medium, Wired, Courrier International, The New York Times, Le Monde, and Esquire, and has been exhibited at the Musee de l’Elysee, Noorderlicht, Art Souterrain, among others.

Maria Bastashevski, *State Business-Chapter III*, (2015)

Maria Bastashevski, State Business-Chapter III, (2015)

Maria Bastashevski, *State Business-Chapter III*, (2015)

Maria Bastashevski, State Business-Chapter III, (2015)

Maria Bastashevski, *It's Nothing Personal*, (2015)

Maria Bastashevski, It's Nothing Personal, (2015)

Maria Bastashevski, *It's Nothing Personal*, (2015)

Maria Bastashevski, It's Nothing Personal, (2015)

Mari Bastashevski, *It’s Nothing Personal*, (2015)

Mari Bastashevski, It’s Nothing Personal, (2015)

Maria Bastashevski, *Its Nothing Personal*, (2015)

Maria Bastashevski, Its Nothing Personal, (2015)

Maria Bastashevski, * It's Nothing Personal*, (2015)

Maria Bastashevski, It's Nothing Personal, (2015)

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About

Following a trip on a container vessel from Israel to New Jersey in 2011, I conceived of the Container Artist Residency. As part of the project, I facilitated, through a long chain of emails, calls, WhatsApp texts, and the funds obtained from a shipping line a residency at sea for seven artists (eight to be exact, as one of the artists was a duo). This website stand alongside the website dedicated to the first edition, and is meant to record and present the process of producing the project, as well as continuing a conversation with the different contributors who took part in the residency. With the goals of realizing further editions in the future, it will also host the records of the anticipated continuation of the project.