Five pronunciation exercises. Glass #1, 2020

The artwork pledge

• QUALITY EDUCATION
• CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION
• AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY
• INDUSTRY, INNOVATION, AND INFRASTRUCTURE
• SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
• RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION
• CLIMATE ACTION
• LIFE BELOW WATER
• LIFE ON LAND
• PEACE, JUSTICE, AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS

Tags

• Abstract
• Alberto Burri
• Arte Povera
• Chemical Process
• Chlorine
• Cognitive Science
• Collective Memory
• Dubna
• Empirical Evidence
• Empirical Research
• Etching
• Figurative
• Glass
• Informalism
• Memory
• Metal
• Michel Eugène Chevreul
• Mixed Media
• Moscow
• Neo-Impressionism
• New Realism
• Phenomenology
• Process Art
• Russia
• Scientific Method
• Sculpture 3D
• Semantics
• Toxicity
• Works on Paper

About this artwork

Alexandra Sukhareva has been experimenting with mirrors since 2013, exploring the notion that, ‘being more sensitive than us’, these objects have the capacity to sense and accumulate traces or impressions of objects, people, memories and forms of thought onto their surface during their existence (Alexandra Sukhareva, in conversation with Tate curator Dina Akhmadeeva, 13 March 2017). Speaking of her mirror series more broadly, Sukhareva has noted that, ‘silver is one of the most susceptible and appreciative matters – it records very elusive things to inform about them in its particular manner’ (Alexandra Sukhareva, artist’s portfolio, 2016).

The resultant marks, created on the mirrors through a chemical process impossible to fully control, are the traces of the elusive made visible. Curator Sasha Obukhova has noted that within Sukhareva’s practice this has included ‘the magic of everyday life, historical trauma, and hidden projections of the personality’ (Sasha Obukhova, ‘Alexandra Sukhareva’, in Garage Museum of Contemporary Art 2017, p.144).

More artworks by Alexandra Sukhareva

• Alexandra Sukhareva Lake, 2021 Osnova Gallery €18,000
• Alexandra Sukhareva Untitled (etching according to the drawing of 1987), 2019 Osnova Gallery €1,400
• Alexandra Sukhareva Untitled (Etching according to the drawing of 1988), 2019 Osnova Gallery €1,400

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