Bio:
Sasha Suvorova (b. 1986) is an artist working across painting, textile and painting-object installation. She recently graduated from the Turps Off-Site Programme 25/26, London, and previously studied at the Surikov Art Institute, Moscow, and CAI, later receiving a PhD in Theatre Design. She was awarded the Golden Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts. Suvorova has undertaken residencies at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, on five occasions, as well as SIM Residency, Berlin, and SIM Residency, Iceland. Her work has been exhibited with Hypha Studios and featured in The Art Newspaper Russia, Architectural Digest, Londonist and Contemporary Art Issue.
Statement
The artworks in this portfolio are large double-sided pastel drawings on handmade paper with an acrylic underpainting, from my series Inherited Matter. Scaled in relation to my own body, the work approaches the body from within: not as a figure to be represented, but as a place, a portal and a creature with its own nervous system. The front sits between abstraction and figuration, while the reverse is painted in skin tones with small marks and imperfections.
Because both sides are worked, Ear can be shown against the wall or suspended in space. When suspended alone or with other works from the series, the paper becomes a membrane that divides, filters and reorganises the viewer’s movement. I see the work as a form of soft architecture: a fragile, economical material used to create a bodily spatial experience.