My practice is grounded in the exploration of matter as a carrier of personal and industrial memory. I work with glass and metal, engaging with form in states of tension, extreme temperature, fracture, and collapse. Cracks, chips, and deformations are not treated as flaws, but as recorded traces of the processes the material has undergone. The objects exist as temporary states, emphasizing the finiteness of form and the fragility of perception.

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Glass becomes a vessel for images and sensations in which clarity and ambiguity, attraction and anxiety, beauty and danger coexist. Each work attempts to fix and preserve these states within the material, yet internal pressure inevitably leads to cracking and transformation. Instability and collapse point to the impossibility of fully preserving lived experience.

 

My artistic thinking developed through graphic design, which I began practicing in 2013. Working with visual systems, grids, rhythm, and proportion established a structural approach that gradually moved from the two-dimensional surface into physical space. Principles of composition and spatial organization became the foundation of my sculptural thinking.

 

My aesthetic is shaped by a childhood spent among abandoned workshops, and unfinished structures in northern Russia during the transition from the late Soviet period to contemporary reality. This experience of loss and transformation informs an artistic language rooted in brutalism, decay, and industrial poetics.

 

Some works contain silhouettes and fragments of mechanical elements and industrial interiors, emerging as traces of memory embedded in the material. Others are visually seductive yet potentially dangerous, emphasizing the dual nature of beauty and the responsibility inherent in physical proximity.

 

Destruction remains central to my methodology. I regularly break and remelt my own works, creating a continuous cycle of transformation in which each new form carries traces of the previous one. Matter becomes a language through which I explore time, memory, loss, and the emergence of the new.