Alexandra Slon
 

I am wounded by information, living the experience of simultaneous vision and ignorance. I am interested in the nature of contradiction in a designed reality, where flashes of insight are quickly replaced by misrecognition.

 

Through different ways of experiencing the world, the fact remains unchanged that something more is always happening than it seems at first glance, which gives rise to emotional and intellectual resonance.

I strive to capture a variety of concepts that transform over time, acquiring new meaning. By superimposing images on top of each other, I intertwine personal experience with the environment. I am not afraid to represent the unsightly sides of human nature, because I believe that only by admitting the ability to both nobility and baseness, one can change.

 

Embroidery with glass beads is an essential part of my practice. I visually emphasize the complex and fragile network of actions and consequences of choice, veiling the ugliness of horror with the aesthetics of brilliance. The translucent and reflective nature of the beads allows me, as an artist, to play with images, imbuing them with symbols and metaphors, shedding light on the ethics of forming opinions that define existence.

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

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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