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Portrait of Alexandra Sukhareva

Alexandra Sukhareva

Born in
1983
From
Moscow, Russian Federation
Lives and works
Dubna, Russian Federation
Represented by
Osnova Gallery
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Contemporary art is above all the critical project, which reveals its techniques and methods and doesn’t try to charm with them. [...] When we are looking at an image, not necessarily a portrait, or are listening to the music, there is a space for a response, a reflection, which is essential for the viewer to exist socially and find their ground.

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Alexandra Sukhareva works primarily with process-oriented installations which speak about the interactions between humans and nature. Among the topics that she works with is also the question of “mental habits” — collective and personal cognitive actions — and their influence on the material world. By using toxic substances and chemical processes dating back to the 18th century, Sukhareva’s installations investigate the phenomenology of objects and processes from both scientific and empirical perspectives. 


Alexandra experiments with non-organic, toxic, and unstable materials in her practice, triggering chemical reactions and spontaneous results in the final art object. This reminds us of Alberto Burri who implemented the physicochemical process of burning as a tool, which subsequently became a material of his works, both physically and semantically.


Alexandra Sukhareva is first and foremost an artist, not a scientist. But her scientific manipulations and explorations of materials, which are essential to the process of creating her artworks, recall Michel Eugène Chevreul whose scientific research on colors highly influenced the neo-impressionist movement.  

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