Demidova Alexandra

Born in Moscow in 1984.

Graduated from the Gerasimov All-Russian State University of Cinematography, specialising in costume design (2006-2012). Worked with director S. Dvortsev on the film "Aika", 2018 (Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for Best Actress).

The artist works with painting, graphics and textiles in such directions as abstraction, primitivism and appropriation. In her work, the author draws on analytical psychology, Old Russian mythology, fairy tales and primitive art, working with themes of psychological development, mental hygiene and integration of shadow aspects of the psyche.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2023 - "Alchemical Process", pop-up exhibition at Peredelkino House of Creativity, moscow
2018 - "Who Speaks How?", Palto Gallery, Moscow

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2023 - "They are cats, and what have you achieved?", Arbuzz Gallery, Moscow
2023 - Fair "ART FAIR ONLINE" gallery "Third Place", St. Petersburg
2023 - "Once upon a time, sometime after" CTI "Fabrika", Moscow
2022 - "Overturn" art park "White Alleys", Moscow
2021 - "Tuesday 11:30" Mosproducer project, Start Hub, Moscow
2021 - "Like a white sheet of paper", art park "White Alleys", Moscow
2019 - "Living Women Have a Body", exhibition in support of Yulia Tsvetkova, Moscow
2019 - "Green Children of Limpopo", Here on Taganka gallery, Moscow
2019 - "39 Youth Exhibition of the Moscow Union of Artists", Artkombinat in Perovo, Moscow
2018 - SAM FAIR, Museum of Street Art, St. Petersburg, Russia

"Alchemical Comics" is a graphic series in the genre of appropriation, in which I illustrate my mental processes and basic concepts of psychology in an ironic way. The pictorial basis of the series is alchemical treatises from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I borrow plots, images and characters, endowing them with personalised content. I add dialogue, phrases and quotes in comic book/meme format."

Alexandra Demidova, an artist