KATYA MERGER
ARTIST
KATYA MERGER
ARTIST
I am exploring the phenomenon of interconnectedness and permeability
My central question is: “How is everything connected, even when it seems separate?”
It is important for me not only to articulate these interconnections but also to experience them through tactile, ritualistic, and artistic gestures that create new ways of perception.
I come from Zabaikalye. My Buryat and Roma roots have shaped the foundation of my practice, instilling in me a sensitivity to moments of transition and shamanic notions of nature’s agency. I create situations where the ordinary becomes sacred, and the relationships between science and intuition, human and environment, personal and external, interweave. For me, the world is not a collection of separate elements but a living network of processes and interactions.
In Voices of the Roots, I engage with the history of timber rafting, transforming the study of lost forests into a ritualistic sonic experience of interconnectedness. In the project Honorary Citizen of the Forest, I acknowledge the agency of trees, seeking to redefine their role in collective consciousness and show how the familiar can be reimagined by shifting perspective. In my glass sculptures, I explore the tense space between care and control—fragile forms made of laboratory glass and wool become an image of the anxious connection with the Earth, where every act of observation can become an intervention.
From 2018 to 2024, I successfully worked as a botanical illustrator, participating in exhibitions at museums and galleries in Moscow. However, after my son’s serious illness and confronting my own mortality, I reevaluated my relationship with life and art. I began creating abstract works, installations, and performances, which led me to enroll in the Bakshtein Institute of Contemporary Art, where I continue my studies.
Now, I live and work in Moscow. Despite my age, I feel like a young, emerging contemporary artist and am eager to realize many new projects.
Education:
2024–2026 Bakshtein Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2010–2012 Institute of Art Restoration, Architect-Restorer, Moscow
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2025 “The Hunt”, Izmailovsky Forest Park, curated by Amina Ibadova and Maya-Sofia Zhumatina, Moscow
2025 "Protective Spaces: Protection/Vulnerability", Septemas Creative Association, Moscow
Festivals and fairs:
2025 Art Space Hopping, CTI "Fabrika", Moscow
Residences:
2025 Art&Science Laboratories "Reasonable Consumption", Moscow
HONORARY RESIDENT OF THE FOREST
performance
Year of creation:
2025
Duration of the performance:
15 min
Video link:
https://rutube.ru/video
Video Duration:
3:43
What if a tree is not merely a part of the landscape but a full-fledged participant in life with its own voice and story?
In this performance, I propose rethinking our interaction with trees beyond utilitarian and anthropocentric perspectives. Through my gesture of recognition, the tree becomes an equal participant in ecosystemic processes, endowed with its own agency.
The act of presenting an award and reading a certificate establishes a new ritual in which I engage in communication with the tree on equal terms. After the award, the tree is given the opportunity to respond. Its voice—whether the creak of frozen bark or a silent presence—serves as the final note in the dialogue, highlighting the multiplicity of ways of existing and interacting that transcend the boundaries of human language.
Through this project, I aim to invite the audience to feel part of a more complex system of connections, in which both human and tree are equally significant elements.
Materials:
A 7-meter path woven from leaves, a certificate made from kombucha culture, a medal (17 cm in diameter) made from fat, seeds, and corn starch, moss, a tripod with an iPhone.
After the ceremony, I conduct interviews with the attending audience, which includes both people and fir trees. Everyone is asked: "What do you think about this event?" People respond with words, while trees answer with the sound of the wind, the rustle of needles, or silence. This moment extends the dialogue, where the voice of nature exists on equal terms with the human voice, revealing the multilayered and ambiguous nature of communication between different forms of life.
Video Link:
https://rutube.ru/video/c7ad73304fedf553add60e2f1071df75/
Video Duration:
1:01
Exhibition Space Opportunities:
Video documentation of the ceremony and interviews with spectators (people and fir trees). Installation featuring performance objects (kombucha certificate, replica of the award, leaf-woven path).
PERIMETER OF CHOICE
videо
2024
Video Duration:
5:36
Description:
The scene is filmed from a window. The camera captures a woman with a stroller, slowly moving in a circle around a young, fragile tree. The diameter of her path is no more than ten meters; the trajectory is visibly worn from repeated passage. Only a brief episode of her endless, hours-long movement is shown — yet even in this short excerpt, the weight of the ritual and the feeling of enclosure are palpable. She appears to be performing an invisible rite, the meaning of which is known only to her.
This is a reflection on the barriers we create for ourselves — a strange, almost absurd dance of habit and self-limitation set against the backdrop of freedom that is present but ignored. I wanted to show how we often construct our own constraints, overlooking the possibilities and spaces that surround us.
FLOW
videо
Year of creation:
2024
Video Duration:
5:09
Description:
My video work explores the symbiosis of natural elements, routine actions, and the creative process. I collect water from a spring—a metaphor for inspiration, which I carefully carry through various spaces and states. This journey reflects the continuity of life and artistic exploration, their fluidity and interconnectedness. The final gesture—mixing the water with paints—emphasizes the endless cycle of interaction between art and the environment.
SYMBIOSIS
object
Year of creation:
2025
Dimensions:
70 х 45 х 28 cm
Materials:
Laboratory glass, tripod, wool.
This object was created under the influence of Timothy Morton’s ideas about hyperobjects and the interpenetration of objects, where Earth and scientific processes exist as inseparably linked entities within a complex network of becomings. The laboratory tripod and system of glass elements—flasks and tubes—visually integrate the scientific method into ontological processes, representing my attempt to grapple with the vast, elusive nature of Earth. A round flask contains a felted wool ball, stylized as a miniature Earth with blue and brown hues. This emphasizes its warmth, vulnerability, and fragility within a system of interdependencies.
LABYRINTHS OF EVOLUTION
object
Year of creation:
2025
Dimensions:
40 х 30 х 21 cm
Materials:
Laboratory glass, tripod, wool.
I created this sculpture using laboratory tools and glass to visually unite science and nature as an interconnected network. An abstract representation of the female reproductive system highlights its fragility and complexity, illustrating Timothy Morton’s concept of object interpenetration. At the center of the composition is a woolen pea, symbolizing Earth, encased in a dropper, emphasizing the interdependence of all living beings. Evolutionary pathways are depicted as a complex labyrinth, reflecting the unpredictability and chaos of natural processes, intricately linked with human actions.
EXTRACTION RESIDUE
object
Year of creation:
2025
Dimensions:
60 х 28 х 13 cm
Materials:
Laboratory glass, tripod, wool.
In this sculpture, I explore the moment when extraction ceases to be a neutral act and becomes a gesture of exhaustion. The separating funnel, fixed on a laboratory tripod, serves as an image of the scientific method pushed to the limits of its instrumentality. Inside the glass is a compressed woolen model of Earth, as if everything has already been wrung out of it. This object is not only a metaphor for ecological overload but also a reflection of the vanishing distinction between investigation and destruction. Through the precision of the laboratory, anxiety emerges: the subject of study is no longer a living process but its remnant.
AFTER ALL
installation
2022
Materials:
Text plaque, children's shovel,
video featuring the same shovel,
screen, white footprints
Description:
This installation emerged from reflections on the transition of art into the digital era through the lens of NFTs. The central element is the contrast between traces of a material past (the outlines of a photograph and a children’s shovel) and the unstable digital image of the shovel on a screen. A plaque describing the shovel emphasizes its utilitarian nature, juxtaposed against a high-tech environment. Through this, I aimed to show how the digital realm alters the perception of objects, creating new connections between the material and the immaterial. The work resonates with the ideas of Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Kosuth, exploring the interplay and interconnectedness of the physical and digital worlds.
UNITUDE
series
From Buryat culture, I have drawn a sense of the world as a living, permeable system where nature and the spiritual are inseparable. For me, solitude is not isolation but a state of interconnectedness, where the internal and external intertwine, and silence becomes a revelation, expanding the experience of self. In these works—melancholy and poetry, love and pain, gratitude for every moment of existence, and a reflection on the connection between autonomy and dissolution in the continuous flow of life.
120 х 180 cm
mixed media, canvas
2024
190 х130 cm
mixed media, canvas
2023
DEEPLY ON THE SURFACE
series
For me, the surface of the canvas is not merely a plane for imagery but a portal through which reality endlessly unfolds, connecting the human with the depth of emotions. This perspective is deeply shaped by my Buryat and Roma roots, where the world is perceived as a living, breathing system. Exploring the interconnectedness and permeability between surface and depth, I engage with sensations of tactility and multilayeredness. I am drawn to moments when the familiar transforms into a point of transition, opening a new level of perception where the material and the sensory intertwine.
mixed media, canvas
2023
I am exploring the phenomenon
of interconnectedness and permeability
My central question is: “How is everything connected, even when it seems separate?”
It is important for me not only to articulate these interconnections but also to experience them through tactile, ritualistic, and artistic gestures that create new ways of perception.
I come from Zabaikalye. My Buryat and Roma roots have shaped the foundation of my practice, instilling in me a sensitivity to moments of transition and shamanic notions of nature’s agency. I create situations where the ordinary becomes sacred, and the relationships between science and intuition, human and environment, personal and external, interweave. For me, the world is not a collection of separate elements but a living network of processes and interactions.
In Voices of the Roots, I engage with the history of timber rafting, transforming the study of lost forests into a ritualistic sonic experience of interconnectedness. In the project Honorary Citizen of the Forest, I acknowledge the agency of trees, seeking to redefine their role in collective consciousness and show how the familiar can be reimagined by shifting perspective. In my glass sculptures, I explore the tense space between care and control—fragile forms made of laboratory glass and wool become an image of the anxious connection with the Earth, where every act of observation can become an intervention.
From 2018 to 2024, I successfully worked as a botanical illustrator, participating in exhibitions at museums and galleries in Moscow. However, after my son’s serious illness and confronting my own mortality, I reevaluated my relationship with life and art. I began creating abstract works, installations, and performances, which led me to enroll in the Bakshtein Institute of Contemporary Art, where I continue my studies.
Now, I live and work in Moscow. Despite my age, I feel like a young, emerging contemporary artist and am eager to realize many new projects.
2024–2026 Bakshtein Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2010–2012 Institute of Art Restoration, Architect-Restorer, Moscow
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2025 “The Hunt”, Izmailovsky Forest Park, curated by Amina Ibadova and Maya-Sofia Zhumatina, Moscow
2025 "Protective Spaces: Protection/Vulnerability", Septemas Creative Association, Moscow
Festivals and fairs:
2025 Art Space Hopping, CTI "Fabrika", Moscow
Residences:
2025 Art&Science Laboratories "Reasonable Consumption", Moscow
HONORARY RESIDENT OF THE FOREST
performance
2025
Duration of the performance:
15 min
Video link:
https://rutube.ru/video
Video Duration:
3:43
What if a tree is not merely a part of the landscape but a full-fledged participant in life with its own voice and story?
In this performance, I propose rethinking our interaction with trees beyond utilitarian and anthropocentric perspectives. Through my gesture of recognition, the tree becomes an equal participant in ecosystemic processes, endowed with its own agency.
The act of presenting an award and reading a certificate establishes a new ritual in which I engage in communication with the tree on equal terms. After the award, the tree is given the opportunity to respond. Its voice—whether the creak of frozen bark or a silent presence—serves as the final note in the dialogue, highlighting the multiplicity of ways of existing and interacting that transcend the boundaries of human language.
Through this project, I aim to invite the audience to feel part of a more complex system of connections, in which both human and tree are equally significant elements.
Materials:
A 7-meter path woven from leaves, a certificate made from kombucha culture, a medal (17 cm in diameter) made from fat, seeds, and corn starch, moss, a tripod with an iPhone.
After the ceremony, I conduct interviews with the attending audience, which includes both people and fir trees. Everyone is asked: "What do you think about this event?" People respond with words, while trees answer with the sound of the wind, the rustle of needles, or silence. This moment extends the dialogue, where the voice of nature exists on equal terms with the human voice, revealing the multilayered and ambiguous nature of communication between different forms of life.
Video Link:
https://rutube.ru/video/c7ad73304fedf553add60e2f1071df75/
Video Duration:
1:01
Exhibition Space Opportunities:
Video documentation of the ceremony and interviews with spectators (people and fir trees). Installation featuring performance objects (kombucha certificate, replica of the award, leaf-woven path).
PERIMETER OF CHOICE
videо
2024
Video Duration:
5:36
Description:
The scene is filmed from a window. The camera captures a woman with a stroller, slowly moving in a circle around a young, fragile tree. The diameter of her path is no more than ten meters; the trajectory is visibly worn from repeated passage. Only a brief episode of her endless, hours-long movement is shown — yet even in this short excerpt, the weight of the ritual and the feeling of enclosure are palpable. She appears to be performing an invisible rite, the meaning of which is known only to her.
This is a reflection on the barriers we create for ourselves — a strange, almost absurd dance of habit and self-limitation set against the backdrop of freedom that is present but ignored. I wanted to show how we often construct our own constraints, overlooking the possibilities and spaces that surround us.
FLOW
videо
2024
Video Duration:
5:09
Description:
My video work explores the symbiosis of natural elements, routine actions, and the creative process. I collect water from a spring—a metaphor for inspiration, which I carefully carry through various spaces and states. This journey reflects the continuity of life and artistic exploration, their fluidity and interconnectedness. The final gesture—mixing the water with paints—emphasizes the endless cycle of interaction between art and the environment.
SYMBIOSIS
object
2025
Dimensions:
70 х 45 х 28 cm
Materials:
Laboratory glass, tripod, wool.
Description:
This object was created under the influence of Timothy Morton’s ideas about hyperobjects and the interpenetration of objects, where Earth and scientific processes exist as inseparably linked entities within a complex network of becomings. The laboratory tripod and system of glass elements—flasks and tubes—visually integrate the scientific method into ontological processes, representing my attempt to grapple with the vast, elusive nature of Earth. A round flask contains a felted wool ball, stylized as a miniature Earth with blue and brown hues. This emphasizes its warmth, vulnerability, and fragility within a system of interdependencies.
LABYRINTHS OF EVOLUTION
object
2025
Dimensions:
40 х 30 х 21 cm
Materials:
Laboratory glass, tripod, wool.
Description:
I created this sculpture using laboratory tools and glass to visually unite science and nature as an interconnected network. An abstract representation of the female reproductive system highlights its fragility and complexity, illustrating Timothy Morton’s concept of object interpenetration. At the center of the composition is a woolen pea, symbolizing Earth, encased in a dropper, emphasizing the interdependence of all living beings. Evolutionary pathways are depicted as a complex labyrinth, reflecting the unpredictability and chaos of natural processes, intricately linked with human actions.
EXTRACTION RESIDUE
object
2025
Dimensions:
60 х 28 х 13 cm
Materials:
Laboratory glass, tripod, wool.
Description:
In this sculpture, I explore the moment when extraction ceases to be a neutral act and becomes a gesture of exhaustion. The separating funnel, fixed on a laboratory tripod, serves as an image of the scientific method pushed to the limits of its instrumentality. Inside the glass is a compressed woolen model of Earth, as if everything has already been wrung out of it. This object is not only a metaphor for ecological overload but also a reflection of the vanishing distinction between investigation and destruction. Through the precision of the laboratory, anxiety emerges: the subject of study is no longer a living process but its remnant.
AFTER ALL
installation
2022
Materials:
Text plaque, children's shovel,
video featuring the same shovel,
screen, white footprints
Description:
This installation emerged from reflections on the transition of art into the digital era through the lens of NFTs. The central element is the contrast between traces of a material past (the outlines of a photograph and a children’s shovel) and the unstable digital image of the shovel on a screen. A plaque describing the shovel emphasizes its utilitarian nature, juxtaposed against a high-tech environment. Through this, I aimed to show how the digital realm alters the perception of objects, creating new connections between the material and the immaterial. The work resonates with the ideas of Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Kosuth, exploring the interplay and interconnectedness of the physical and digital worlds.
UNITUDE
serie
From Buryat culture, I have drawn a sense of the world as a living, permeable system where nature and the spiritual are inseparable. For me, solitude is not isolation but a state of interconnectedness, where the internal and external intertwine, and silence becomes a revelation, expanding the experience of self. In these works—melancholy and poetry, love and pain, gratitude for every moment of existence, and a reflection on the connection between autonomy and dissolution in the continuous flow of life.
120 х 180 cm
mixed media, canvas
2024 г
130 х 190 cm
mixed media, canvas
2024 г
DEEPLY ON THE SURFACE
series
For me, the surface of the canvas is not merely a plane for imagery but a portal through which reality endlessly unfolds, connecting the human with the depth of emotions. This perspective is deeply shaped by my Buryat and Roma roots, where the world is perceived as a living, breathing system. Exploring the interconnectedness and permeability between surface and depth, I engage with sensations of tactility and multilayeredness. I am drawn to moments when the familiar transforms into a point of transition, opening a new level of perception where the material and the sensory intertwine.
130 х 120 cm
mixed media, canvas
2023 г
120 х 120 cm
mixed media, canvas
2022
I am exploring the phenomenon
of interconnectedness and permeability
My central question is: “How is everything connected, even when it seems separate?”
It is important for me not only to articulate these interconnections but also to experience them through tactile, ritualistic, and artistic gestures that create new ways of perception.
I come from Zabaikalye. My Buryat and Roma roots have shaped the foundation of my practice, instilling in me a sensitivity to moments of transition and shamanic notions of nature’s agency. I create situations where the ordinary becomes sacred, and the relationships between science and intuition, human and environment, personal and external, interweave. For me, the world is not a collection of separate elements but a living network of processes and interactions.
In Voices of the Roots, I engage with the history of timber rafting, transforming the study of lost forests into a ritualistic sonic experience of interconnectedness. In the project Honorary Citizen of the Forest, I acknowledge the agency of trees, seeking to redefine their role in collective consciousness and show how the familiar can be reimagined by shifting perspective. In my glass sculptures, I explore the tense space between care and control—fragile forms made of laboratory glass and wool become an image of the anxious connection with the Earth, where every act of observation can become an intervention.
From 2018 to 2024, I successfully worked as a botanical illustrator, participating in exhibitions at museums and galleries in Moscow. However, after my son’s serious illness and confronting my own mortality, I reevaluated my relationship with life and art. I began creating abstract works, installations, and performances, which led me to enroll in the Bakshtein Institute of Contemporary Art, where I continue my studies.
Now, I live and work in Moscow. Despite my age, I feel like a young, emerging contemporary artist and am eager to realize many new projects.
2024–2026 Bakshtein Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2010–2012 Institute of Art Restoration, Architect-Restorer, Moscow
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2025 “The Hunt”, Izmailovsky Forest Park, curated by Amina Ibadova and Maya-Sofia Zhumatina, Moscow
2025 "Protective Spaces: Protection/Vulnerability", Septemas Creative Association, Moscow
Festivals and fairs:
2025 Art Space Hopping, CTI "Fabrika", Moscow
Residences:
2025 Art&Science Laboratories "Reasonable Consumption", Moscow
HONORARY RESIDENT OF THE FOREST
performance
2025
Duration of the performance:
15 min
Video link:
https://rutube.ru/video
Video Duration:
3:43
What if a tree is not merely a part of the landscape but a full-fledged participant in life with its own voice and story?
In this performance, I propose rethinking our interaction with trees beyond utilitarian and anthropocentric perspectives. Through my gesture of recognition, the tree becomes an equal participant in ecosystemic processes, endowed with its own agency.
The act of presenting an award and reading a certificate establishes a new ritual in which I engage in communication with the tree on equal terms. After the award, the tree is given the opportunity to respond. Its voice—whether the creak of frozen bark or a silent presence—serves as the final note in the dialogue, highlighting the multiplicity of ways of existing and interacting that transcend the boundaries of human language.
Through this project, I aim to invite the audience to feel part of a more complex system of connections, in which both human and tree are equally significant elements.
Materials:
A 7-meter path woven from leaves, a certificate made from kombucha culture, a medal (17 cm in diameter) made from fat, seeds, and corn starch, moss, a tripod with an iPhone.
After the ceremony, I conduct interviews with the attending audience, which includes both people and fir trees. Everyone is asked: "What do you think about this event?" People respond with words, while trees answer with the sound of the wind, the rustle of needles, or silence. This moment extends the dialogue, where the voice of nature exists on equal terms with the human voice, revealing the multilayered and ambiguous nature of communication between different forms of life.
Video Link:
https://rutube.ru/video/c7ad73304fedf553add60e2f1071df75/
Video Duration:
1:01
Exhibition Space Opportunities:
Video documentation of the ceremony and interviews with spectators (people and fir trees). Installation featuring performance objects (kombucha certificate, replica of the award, leaf-woven path).
PERIMETER OF CHOICE
videо
2024
Video Duration:
5:36
Description:
The scene is filmed from a window. The camera captures a woman with a stroller, slowly moving in a circle around a young, fragile tree. The diameter of her path is no more than ten meters; the trajectory is visibly worn from repeated passage. Only a brief episode of her endless, hours-long movement is shown — yet even in this short excerpt, the weight of the ritual and the feeling of enclosure are palpable. She appears to be performing an invisible rite, the meaning of which is known only to her.
This is a reflection on the barriers we create for ourselves — a strange, almost absurd dance of habit and self-limitation set against the backdrop of freedom that is present but ignored. I wanted to show how we often construct our own constraints, overlooking the possibilities and spaces that surround us.
FLOW
videо
2024
Video Duration:
5:09
Description:
My video work explores the symbiosis of natural elements, routine actions, and the creative process. I collect water from a spring—a metaphor for inspiration, which I carefully carry through various spaces and states. This journey reflects the continuity of life and artistic exploration, their fluidity and interconnectedness. The final gesture—mixing the water with paints—emphasizes the endless cycle of interaction between art and the environment.
SYMBIOSIS
object
2025
Dimensions:
70 х 45 х 28 cm
Materials:
Laboratory glass, tripod, wool.
Description:
This object was created under the influence of Timothy Morton’s ideas about hyperobjects and the interpenetration of objects, where Earth and scientific processes exist as inseparably linked entities within a complex network of becomings. The laboratory tripod and system of glass elements—flasks and tubes—visually integrate the scientific method into ontological processes, representing my attempt to grapple with the vast, elusive nature of Earth. A round flask contains a felted wool ball, stylized as a miniature Earth with blue and brown hues. This emphasizes its warmth, vulnerability, and fragility within a system of interdependencies.
LABYRINTHS OF EVOLUTION
object
2025
Dimensions:
40 х 30 х 21 cm
Materials:
Laboratory glass, tripod, wool.
Description:
I created this sculpture using laboratory tools and glass to visually unite science and nature as an interconnected network. An abstract representation of the female reproductive system highlights its fragility and complexity, illustrating Timothy Morton’s concept of object interpenetration. At the center of the composition is a woolen pea, symbolizing Earth, encased in a dropper, emphasizing the interdependence of all living beings. Evolutionary pathways are depicted as a complex labyrinth, reflecting the unpredictability and chaos of natural processes, intricately linked with human actions.
EXTRACTION RESIDUE
object
2025
Dimensions:
60 х 28 х 13 cm
Materials:
Laboratory glass, tripod, wool.
Description:
In this sculpture, I explore the moment when extraction ceases to be a neutral act and becomes a gesture of exhaustion. The separating funnel, fixed on a laboratory tripod, serves as an image of the scientific method pushed to the limits of its instrumentality. Inside the glass is a compressed woolen model of Earth, as if everything has already been wrung out of it. This object is not only a metaphor for ecological overload but also a reflection of the vanishing distinction between investigation and destruction. Through the precision of the laboratory, anxiety emerges: the subject of study is no longer a living process but its remnant.
AFTER ALL
installation
2022
Materials:
Text plaque, children's shovel,
video featuring the same shovel,
screen, white footprints
Description:
This installation emerged from reflections on the transition of art into the digital era through the lens of NFTs. The central element is the contrast between traces of a material past (the outlines of a photograph and a children’s shovel) and the unstable digital image of the shovel on a screen. A plaque describing the shovel emphasizes its utilitarian nature, juxtaposed against a high-tech environment. Through this, I aimed to show how the digital realm alters the perception of objects, creating new connections between the material and the immaterial. The work resonates with the ideas of Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Kosuth, exploring the interplay and interconnectedness of the physical and digital worlds.
UNITUDE
serie
From Buryat culture, I have drawn a sense of the world as a living, permeable system where nature and the spiritual are inseparable. For me, solitude is not isolation but a state of interconnectedness, where the internal and external intertwine, and silence becomes a revelation, expanding the experience of self. In these works—melancholy and poetry, love and pain, gratitude for every moment of existence, and a reflection on the connection between autonomy and dissolution in the continuous flow of life.
120 х 180 cm
mixed media, canvas
2024 г
130х190 cm
mixed media, canvas
2024 г.DEEPLY ON THE SURFACE
series
For me, the surface of the canvas is not merely a plane for imagery but a portal through which reality endlessly unfolds, connecting the human with the depth of emotions. This perspective is deeply shaped by my Buryat and Roma roots, where the world is perceived as a living, breathing system. Exploring the interconnectedness and permeability between surface and depth, I engage with sensations of tactility and multilayeredness. I am drawn to moments when the familiar transforms into a point of transition, opening a new level of perception where the material and the sensory intertwine.
130х120 cm
mixed media, canvas
2023
120х120 cm
mixed media, canvas
2023