Galleries
Parallax
Installation, 6x3x13 feet; paper, light, foam core, 2021, Levitt Gallery
Oasis
Oasis revisions human constructs such as borders, maps, topography, space, and architecture, which run through the spaces we live in. It underlines the tensions between realities and fictions of a fabricated landscape and explores urban anxieties of individual struggling to maintain independence and individuality. This work focuses on human’s relationship to the environment and explores utopian landscapes and their place in the collective imagination.
Installation, 9 x12 feet, thai kozo paper, common nails, mirrors. 2021, Levitt Gallery.
Dispossessed
For hundreds and thousands of years, ice has been a permanent feature of our planet, until now. Irresistible and pristine bodies of ice are disappearing around the world, due to the rising temperatures.
The Dispossessed represents a surreal seascape of icebergs floating in the middle of the dark ocean. The Icebergs are formed from the layers that embody sheets of compressed snow that has fallen thousands years ago. Each layer holds the mystery that is vanishing along with melting ice. The Dispossessed creates an atmosphere of nostalgic, longing, melancholia for the disappearance of this primeval ice.
The installation shows merging of different art fields; it unifies sculpture, architecture, light and sound.
Labyrinth
Labyrinth is about the journey, as much as about destination. Labyrinth is surreal in many ways, and many things are not what they seem. Labyrinth is a place full of intricate passages, blind alleys, and shadows; they slow you down, as you move through tunnels and chambers, and educe meditation when you reach ending point. It is not a scary place if you learn the pattern as the artist, who lives to explore Labyrinth. This gallery is currently on display at the Grant Wood Art Colony gallery.
Horizons of Utopia
Horizons of Utopia explores literary and historical utopian ideas through contemplations on the utopian landscape, with a particular emphasis on topography and cartography. The idea of utopia is part of the perspective of every journey we take and utopian mentality is at the base of all serious efforts toward progress. The mystery of remote places and a glimpse of an ideal land on the other side of the ocean drove pioneers throughout history to take dangerous journeys. Some of the most interesting utopian ideas may have been disappointments, however utopian projects always were a playground for scientists, theorists, explorers and artists.The idea of utopia is represented in video – the media that has an ephemeral and transient nature itself, and dystopia is epitomized as fictional geography in build three-dimensional installation with elements of painting, printmaking, sculpture and light.
Installation, light, sculpture, video, screen print
The End of Utopia
The composition of The End of Utopia displays a visual order of both, utopia and dystopia in a sculptural multimedia installation; my piece focuses on how these two terms are in conflict with one another and yet integrally related. The End of Utopia is built in the shape of waves that are gradually increasing and finally exploding at the top. The bottom part of the installation embodies the utopia, represented by the idyllic cityscape, slowly being corrupted by the dark wave – dystopia. The utopian cityscape represents an attractive and organized space inhabited by clusters of flesh colored buildings. The idyllic landscape has a clear reference to the human body and epitomizes the embodiment of the actual human experience. The black wave is slowly invading the utopian landscape, causing dramatic cataclysmic changes in the topography and finally explodes at the top into the space.
Sculpture, digital print, screen print, cut-out
Family Portraits
Family Portraits series outlines the essential role of personal memories as an alternative to the memories that are constructed and represented as a history. Using the examples of the historical turmoil in Russia, I explore the sensitive link between nation, violence and memory. Since I cannot trust official accounts, I recreate the historical environment by reconstructing family memories from the materials found in my family archives. The portraits of my family members are placed against the wallpaper background to create an illusion of domestic space, one that evokes safety and protection, an evocation undercut by the way other elements (incisions, voids, sutures) suggest instability and danger. The work reflects an ideological climate: one politically oppressive, one that exposes our insides (our memories and legacies) to outside threats.
Digital, photography, cut-out
Senorita Extraviada
The project Senorita Extraviada explores the physical map and the human geography of memory. This work repositions the clothes of anonymous women in relation to the physical landscape. It explores their social status, economics and mechanical reproduction through changes in scale, context, medium and design. The project helps to illuminate multiple issues around the Mexican- American border including organized crime, drug and human trafficking, role of NAFTA in the expansion of the maquiladora industry - which directly affected gendered violence and problematic power structures surrounding textile production in Juarez Ciudad. Highly detailed satellite images of the area of Juarez Ciudad and El Paso with a color-coded embroidered border is superimposed over a transparent monotype of the dress, helping the map mediate between the visible and the absent. Given the scale of the site and the totality of this ongoing tragic event, the map seek to control and direct the ways of seeing and experiencing a place whose grimness and sadness need a more personal response.
Digital, monotype, textile, collage, embroidery
Urban Disasters
“Urban Disasters” series focus on exploring history, place and narrative through memory and emotion, and thus defines the artist’s place vis-à-vis the ever-evolving world. It reflects my fascination with urban culture and examines the place of the individual within it. Using an example of historical turmoil in Russia in 1990s, I investigate the influence of society on the inner world of the individual , and how she reacts to outside forces. The series of monotypes show the city’s destruction, which does not mean a real, physical damage, but rather reflects turbulences of that time. The Disasters series reflects my thoughts about the experience of the metropolis and human existence in general, filled with sentiments of alienation and global problems.
Monotype
Student Work