Alisa Smorodina

Alisa Smorodina was born in 1983 in Frunze, Kyrgyzstan. She graduated from the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia (2018), Sean Myers's experimental printing course at Central St Martins (2012) and the British Higher School of Art and Design (2010).

Recently, she has been working with objects and installations, in which she gravitates towards the use of everyday objects and materials. Interfering with their apparent immutability and transforming them, the artist seeks to expose the system of relations between the cultural meaning of things, individual memory, and experience—to record the mutation of what is called identity in constant interaction with the objective world.

In her earlier participatory works, the artist would create and mediate spaces at the intersection of art and speculative educational practices. In these works, it was important for the artist to touch upon the emotional states of the participants, proposing situations in which it was necessary to overcome embarrassment, rejection, fear, or disgust, creating temporally-bounded micro-communities united by a collective experience.

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