Victoria Kokorina Biography

The artist works with fabrics and embroidery. The embroidery technique and interest in folk embroidery adopted in childhood with a mother who studied for many years with her older friend Victoria Borisovna Melnikova, an architect and an artist who worked with the heritage of the traditional Central Asian embroidery Susani. She independently studied the canons of the archaic peasant embroidery of the Russian North and the related semantic fields.

The artist feels folk embroidery as something living. It was always interested in the development of organisms, the growth of organic matter, evolution as a variety inside the system, spontaneous unpredictable changes fixed in this system.

There are all the same properties of living matter in the folk embroidery. Just as in evolutionary processes, in embroidery canons there is a standard at the level of species and the likelihood of failures, mutations in individual incarnations, repetitions and variations, in which it is easy to feel that the French philosopher A. Bergson called a life impulse. Svetlana Shilankova graduated from St.

Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television, the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis. This year, she completes education under the program “Contemporary Art” of higher education, studied at the workshops of A. Zhilyaev and groups of SIPs. Svetlana is interested in creating utopian worlds, constructing situations, joining relationships and being subjected to collective processes of a mutation, trying to discern a new experience that reflects the principles of coherence and ability to transform.

It works in the installation medium using radi-mades, texts, sound and ceramic objects. Often the basis for its projects is the erosion of the boundaries between art and the viewer, the reduction of urban space and the study of the possibility of irrational knowledge. The hybridity of forms is an expanded metaphor for a morphologically diverse world where people are an integral part of nature.

Interacting with the space of everyday life along with natural substances and mythological systems, the artist is working on the creation of prerequisites for the emergence of new forms of collective life. She took part in Russian exhibitions and collective research projects. The address and hours of work of the museum:, Moscow, st. Tickets purchased on the official website of the Moscow Mayor www.

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