Anna Slobozhanina (born 1993) is a multimedia artist from St. Petersburg, Russia.
She works with media: site-specific installations, sculpture made of ceramics, pearls and other natural materials, photos. She explores the states of transition - "exercises in death" in nature, man and culture, often referring to the images and meanings of the northern territories.
She graduated from the Department of Ceramics at the Stieglitz Academy. She is a recipient of grants from the Frants Art Foundation, a nominee for the Kuryokhin Award and the Ruarts Foundation grant program. Selected solo projects of the artist were shown at the FFTN Gallery, the Anikushin Museum, the Antonov Gallery, and the Arkhangelsk Gostiny Dvory. She has worked in residences: Wynwood residence, Mira centre, Marjin Dom, ARKA, Karelian Air Residency. As part of group exhibitions, she exhibited in the spaces: MMOMA, Permm, the Luda Gallery, Museum of 20th and 21st Century St Petersburg Art, Kuryokhin Center, Kargopol Art Museum and others. She has also participated in art fairs such as Brafa, Cosmoscow, Art4, Port Art Fair, Vladey, and 1703.
The way I create art feels to me like casting a spell over and over again. Every time it lets me go deeper and deeper inside my inner universe. While in the evening I might burn everything to the ground, in the morning I can recreate my world again from fragile dreams and subtle threads of thoughts and feelings. In art I can close my eyes and rely on my feelings touching the surface of art pieces which might feel cool or warm, smooth or harsh, soft or solid. I can listen to the calming sounds. This world feels elusive. It can go away as fast as a dream or raindrops when they touch hot wooden boards. I am able either to keep it or destroy it. As in fingering prayer beads, I laugh in the mornings and cry at night.
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