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Alyona Sm-Po
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I graduated from the Theater Academy with a degree in production design. Now I am an interdisciplinary artist, the main mediums are linocut, painting, textiles, art objects. During my studies, I was very interested in artists - surrealists and Dadaists - Hans Arp, Henry Moore, Joan Miro, and I also often turn to children's art, cave paintings, dreams and the unconscious, partly taking this idea from the Dadaists. But also under the influence of impressions from the birth of my daughter.
Daily observation of a new emerging personality led me to understand how much outside influence shapes our personality, even against our desire and nature. This became a kind of research for me and a topic for creativity.

Artist statment.
In the process of life we ​​are exposed to a huge number of influences from different institutions - family, education, culture, marketing, etc. I believe that art is what can put everything in its place. By practicing automatic drawing, I release images from the subconscious, bypassing thought processes and ordinary human logic, which means these images are not subject to wives influenced from outside.
At the same time, I take primitive forms of art as a guide - children's creativity, rock painting, etc. I am also inspired by the experience of artists of the 20th century, "the surrealists were also looking for the true creativity and true freedom in cultural practices." For example, “for Dubuffet, these sources are, in addition to the creativity of madmen, in cave paintings and children's drawings - there is no history, theory, self-reflection and cotrot."
And despite the general fascination with folk arts, I turn to non-cultural Tourist images in the traditional sense of the word. To the art that I didn’t have time for influence society in its own interests. The constant desire to experiment with different materials is like a response to the world that which is much more virtual than we think.This desire to constantly feel mathematically reality of this world and thereby confirm their own existence, so how today we can question absolutely everything. I abandon the usual plot, logic or meaning and use unfinished or free forms, in which there is always understatement. In this way, I create a field in which the viewer becomes a full participant in the artist’s work.


Exhibition "Constellations"
Personal exhibition in the art space of the Petrikirche catacombs.

Constellation is literally a “constellation” or a coincidence of circumstances. Hans Arp called his compositions of organic forms that way. I also use organic and natural forms in my works. This is an argument that man, as he develops technology, moves further and further away from nature, forgetting that he is inseparably connected with it. Tactility and handcraft came first for me.

The design on the textile is applied manually using linocut and stencil techniques. printing and hand painting. The three-dimensional sculptures are made of papier-mâché, the raw material for which was egg trays. In this way, I want to draw attention to environmental problems, in particular to the problem of overflowing landfills that poison the air and land for many kilometers around.

Painting
Performance "On Earth"
Sudden exhibition in the field.
An exhibition with almost no spectators, where the entire planet acted as an art space. With this event I wanted to ask a question - what is the exhibition itself? Can an event not reflected on social networks be considered to have taken place? Man has been living in the virtual world for a long time. We only know and believe what we saw in the news or read on someone’s page.Real- The real world is far from us and almost no events take place there. This is the essence and the trouble with a person is that he is always afraid of being in the minority and is ready not to believe even to my own eyes. This performance was also dedicated to unity with nature. I want- wanted to create a harmonious environment between nature and human creation and thereby show that man can coexist harmoniously with nature looking not only at your own interests. All art objects are made from recycled materials.
Linocut

За фото благодарю Евгению Черепанову.

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