Mila Figuet is a performance artist and cultural worker based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her work bridges activism and art-making, focusing on developing strategies to address gender-based violence and foster collective healing.
She creates spaces and situations where the body—often the primary site of such violence—plays a central role and multiple voices resonate, interweaving personal experiences with the testimonies of the communities she engages with.
She holds a BFA in Intermedia (Video, Performance, and Electronic Arts) from Concordia University. Self-taught in archival practices, she integrates them into an 'archival activism' approach to challenge dominant historical narratives. Her entire body of work focuses on documenting and making visible stories, experiences, and perspectives that have been under-represented or erased from conventional history.
Combining this tool with oral history methods and elements of narrative experimentation, she builds a language halfway between documentary and fiction.
She has collaborated with cultural institutions such as La Centrale, Dazibao, Vidéographe, Eastern Bloc and Artch.