ARTIST STATEMENT

For me, memory is the substrate of identity. Applying my experience as an archaeologist to my archives and fragments that carry other people's stories and evidence of the past, I seek to show identity in its fluid, tense unity. Collage is my central method, and working with fragments is a way to comprehend the whole as a reassembled structure, where personal and cultural traces form temporary connections. In my practice, physical, mental, and digital spaces exist in a unified phygital continuum. By moving objects of loss into the digital world and back again, I capture the processes of disappearance of things, memories, and representations—and at the same time create new forms of presence where identity manifests itself through dynamic unity.

EDUCATION

2021-2023 Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia named after A. Rodchenko, Moscow. Yulia Vergazova's Laboratory «The Latest Contexts and Techno-Ecological Perspectives in Contemporary Art»

2009 Academy for Retraining Workers in Art, Culture, and Tourism
Department of Museum Studies

2001-2006 Volgograd State University
Department of Archaeology, Ancient and Medieval History

COURSES / INTENSIVES

2025 Project Laboratory by Olga Matveeva and Elena Anosova
2023 Semester with NIZINA. Contemporary Photobook (Kristina Sergeeva and Kristina Shkileva)
2023 Contemporary Photography: New Visual Strategies (Kristina Sergeeva)
2022 BBE (Bang Bang Education) Online School, Program «How to Make a Micro-Documentary»