Map fragment. "Secret facility". From "Maps" series

With the help of my artistic practice, I try to understand and feel some general patterns by which nature and man live, how we influence each other, how we shape.

Experiencing my personal experience and simultaneously observing the world around me – people, nature, the city, I find visual and poetic parallels that are embodied in universal schemes, lyrical cartography. I am concerned with the beauty and tragedy of life, the order and constancy of its flow, in which the brevity and uniqueness of each individual moment drowns.

Working in the landscape genre, revising its traditional forms, I try to comprehend the world in which I am and of which I am a part. Using different means and techniques – graphics, painting, video, animation, fabrics, I create landscapes that are on the border between the imaginary and the real...

Text: Asya Marakulina