Lake, 2021

The artwork pledge

• 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 first started experimenting with chlorine in 2008/2009. This artwork is typical of her oeuvre, and it is not a painting per se; it rather acts like a painting, remaining a burnt object at its core. The traces, left by chlorine, corrode the canvas and become a “recording of experiences”. When chlorine touches the fabric of the canvas, a corrosive effect occurs. This burn is essentially a trace, which, according to the artist, is a record of an auto-reproduction. The act of burning records itself - the fact of its inevitable traumatic existence.
Chlorine is the closest relative of the toxic substances of modernism. On a large scale, chlorine gas began to be used during World War I. For the first time it became a sign of "an obsession with the idea of cleanliness", which later, in the 20th century, will turn into a nightmare, in order to later turn into a means associated with the production of comfort – a cleaning supply.

Alexandra Sukhareva’s artworks represent impressions from objects and events through the consistent analysis and documentation of their meaning, mediated by multi-component artistic metaphors. Her installations investigate the phenomenology of objects and processes from both scientific and empirical perspectives as well as notions of memory and experience.

More artworks by Alexandra Sukhareva

• Alexandra Sukhareva Five pronunciation exercises. Glass #1, 2020 Osnova Gallery €7,000
• 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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