ALEX SLON

At the center of my work is the affective space that emerges at the intersection of disappointment and hope. I'm interested not in the transition from one state to another, but in their simultaneous coexistence—a state of inner tension in which loss coexists with possibility, and doubt becomes a way of understanding reality.

In my work, I use canvas, wax crayons, and glass bead embroidery. The free, spontaneous gesture of drawing enters into a dialogue with the slow and disciplined process of embroidery. The matte, dense surface of the wax contrasts with the shimmering, light-refracting texture of the glass beads. The interplay of these materials reflects the tension central to my practice between fragility and resilience, vulnerability and inner strength.

My works do not offer the viewer a complete narrative or consoling interpretations. On the contrary, they create a space for encountering ambiguity and contradiction, where doubt ceases to be a sign of weakness and becomes a form of knowledge. I see this as one of the important tasks of my art: to bear witness to the complexity of human experience without seeking to resolve it.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2023 / «Architecture of light», Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning of the City of Moscow. Moscow

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 / «Epochs», Museum of the Ancient World, St. Petersburg

2025 / «Architectural Image of the Capital», SISTEMA GALLERY, Moscow
2025 / «Portrait of a New Wave Collector», Gallery a—s—t—r—a. Moscow
2025 / «CUBE market». Moscow
2025 / «Arts&crafts» Port art fair. Saint Petersburg
2025 / «Red Book», Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum. Nizhny Novgorod
2025 / «Native Streets of a Foreign City», Bis Art Gallery. Moscow
2024 / «Symptoms of Reality», Moscow Rodchenko School and Multimedia. Moscow
2023 / «GEN», Festival of Contemporary Art «First Factory of the Avant-Garde». Ivanovo  
2023 / «I am vulnerability», Biennial of youth. Belgrad
2023 / «Gallery not found». Moscow
2022 / «The Return of the Kolobok and a Few More Strange Attractors»,
CCI Fabrka. Moscow
2021 / «Catalogue». Moscow
2021 / «Time of Things», Vinzavod. Moscow
2021 / «Space within us?», Gallery Peresvetov lane. Moscow

AWARDS
2021 / Winner of the Vladivostok-3000 and other Rare Earths textile design competition. Moscow

EDUCATION
2024 / «Rodchenko school». Moscow
2020 - 2022 / «ICA» Institute of Contemporary Art Joseph Backstein. Moscow