‘无限’— 伊琳娜·彼得拉科娃
I can also say about my works that they exist in a border zone — between figure and stain, intention and accident, corporeality and loss of form. And I catch the image at the moment of displacement, when it is about to become something else or disappear altogether. This fluidity and uncertainty is the essence of my work — as if painting were not a way of “showing” but a way of capturing inner tremors and instability. I am a graphic artist and sculptor by training, but I try to go beyond both media and, in general, strive for “picturesqueness,” but not painting as such. This is an important clarification: there is indeed no volume in my compositions, no spatial illusion — but there is flickering and permeability. Color in my works lives as a smudge, a coating, a trace.
I solve graphic problems — the relationship between spots and emptiness, lines and silence — but I do so as an artist who allows chance to intervene in the process. I ask myself where I end. At some point, you realize that you and your hand are just tools. This is not an escape from the world, but a trust in the reality that begins where the rational ends.
Born in 1978 in Ust-Ilimsk, Irkutsk Oblast.
Education:
1995 -2000 Department of Fine Arts and Graphics, Novosibirsk, Russia
2010 - 2011 The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Moscow, Russia
2011 - 2013 BAZA, Anatoly Osmolovsky's Institute, Moscow, Russia
2015 Salzburg Summer Academy, Sculpture class of Nora Schulz, Austria
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 'Production Failure' Curated by Nikolay Alutin, Gallery Iragui, Moscow, Russia
2022 'State of Disaster', Curated by Pavel Kovalenko, Centrepointbasel, Basel, Switzerland
2022 'Hi everyone, hello everyone! This exhibition was created for you by artificial
intelligence', Richter hotel, Moscow, Russia
2021 'Manifested by Disappearance', Curated by Nikolay Alutin MMOMA (Moscow Museum of
Modern Art) Moscow, Russia
2020 'Heidi Schneider. Here and there in Moo Moo country' (The project was supported by
Austrian Cultural Forum) Fabrika CCI, Moscow, Russia
2018 'Come and Hide Here' Curated by Anatoly Osmolovsky Gallery Iragui, Moscow, Russia
2016 'EXPLAIN IT TO THE IGNORANTS' curated by Michael Klimin, Dmitry Skopintsev
Artist run space "Krasnii"
2016 'Pharmakon' Curated by Boris Klushnikov, Gallery Iragui, Moscow, Russia
2015 'GunPowder' Artist-in-Residence, ZARYA CCA, Vladivostok, Russia
Moscow, Russia, CCI «Fabrika», 2020
Vladivostok, Russia, Centre for Contemporary Art «ZARYA», 2015
