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Influenced by James Frazer’s The Golden Bough and post-humanist perspectives, I am fascinated by the power dynamics of witchcraft and rituals throughout human history, as well as their impact and transformation in contemporary society.


As an artist and diviner with a multicultural background, I have delved into these themes through anthropological research and studies of the rituals practiced by ethnic minorities worldwide. By attributing spirits and divine power to land and objects such as plants, instruments, or totems—often through divinatory rituals—these practices address human needs and desires. I have come to realize that they reflect the complexity of human cognition and its intricate relationship with the rights and agency of the "Other," as well as with algorithmic technologies in social spaces, which continue to disseminate human-centric ways of being.


I aim to challenge the power hierarchies inherent in anthropocentric ritual belief systems. Through sculpture, site-specific experiments, and installations, I seek to reconstruct the power of restoring agency to objects and the dehumanized perspectives they embody, all under a sense of absurdity and the uncanny.


My studio practice is divided into two parts. One involves the investigation of landscape and its geographic connection with the body. I capture the profound intimacy within the relationship between land and human interaction and create microscopic artistic spectacles and travel routes. The other aspect of my work involves the creation of seemingly functional objects that construct a sense of playfulness and implicit tension. These objects serve as renderings and reimaginings of ritual scenes, acting as vessels through which humans embark on a cosmic journey during rituals.


My most current project, Divine Wandering, consists of five installations and sculptures inspired by the poetry of a Shamanic ascension ceremony in Altai Krai. The poem serves as the origin of the work:
"High, high, upwards!
Toru, the Toru that cannot carry a person.
High, high, upwards!
Toru and he, he who carries Toru,
The swift horse and the knight.
High, high, upwards!
Golden ropes and golden Taska,
Golden bed, golden rod.
High, high, upwards!"


In this project, I have constructed scene-like sculptural compositions, such as towering woolen hobbyhorses, sheepskin drums imprinted with skeletal X-rays, and ground- and wall-mounted kinetic devices. These works explore the complex allure and fragility inherent in primitive belief systems and rituals, offering a sensory experience that navigates between the sacred and the vulnerable. I take on animism and redefine the power and authority in ways that go beyond conventional mode of perception, enabling my audience to contemplate the existence of "Otherness" and how the finite nature of the self can be transformed into an infinite. 

Artist Statement

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