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Laura Magnusson
Laura Magnusson is an interdisciplinary artist who explores and elucidates felt experiences of trauma resulting from sexual violence through installation, sculpture, drawing, performance, and video. She is a trained scuba diver who has filmed underwater in Iceland and México, using the medium of water as a site for healing and reconnecting to her body. Magnusson’s research-creation has been presented in Canada, the United States, México, and a number of European countries, with support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the University of Michigan (2019), and is currently pursuing a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Concordia University.