Palm Sasha

A contemporary artist working with traditional and new media.

"By closely examining the harmonic oscillations of the eternal pendulum of life and death, I begin to notice the outlines of 'impossible figures.' The flickering point, drawing these looping trajectories with its movement, never ends its journey. Fundamental dichotomies overcome the emptiness that separates them and merge into a whole without losing their dual nature.

This eternal return gives me the opportunity to appropriate the chance for rebirth.

By focusing my lens on the relationship between time and consciousness, I attempt to find points of contact with objective reality and collective memory, define the boundaries of my subjective integrity, and construct a hybrid construct of my own identity from these disparate elements.

A deep respect for traditions, cultural roots, their multifaceted nature, and the obscurity of time impels me to rethink ancient techniques in a contemporary context. To do this, I simultaneously draw on the possibilities of new media and the richness of Russian folklore. Christian symbolism. I discover and, literally, bring to light their subtle intersections.

Focusing on the moment of contemplation and the experience of touching collective memory occur through working with archaic and archetypal techniques of artistic metal and woodworking. Embossing and carving are careful manual labor that creates a perceptual experience of unity with nature. The exchange of information with a seemingly inert material allows it to be transformed into a valuable artifact.

For me, black is not just a color, but a symbol, a slot in the metaphorical model: "without darkness there is no light." It is a tool that allows me to reflect the profound connection between mythological archetypes and spiritual images, draw parallels between profound truths, and create a sense of the imminent arrival of light.

Relief patterns, symbols, wrapped in pixels of the emptiness of three-dimensional space—this is my personal cartography and cryptography. Landmarks for a point wandering in the darkness, which reveal themselves as the light of knowledge only to the attentive."

Kira Kostina

SELECTED EXHIBITION PROJECTS:

2025 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 7, a—s—t—r—a Gallery, Winzavod, Moscow
2025 — Exhibition "PAD", Paris
2025 — Exhibition "BLOOM", ART & BRUT Gallery, Moscow
2024 — Exhibition "Personal", Palaty Gallery, Moscow
2024 — Joint Replicated Project Generative Gallery, Moscow
2024 — "12th International Contemporary Art Fair Cosmoscow", Timiryazev Center, Moscow
2024 — XIII Moscow International Arts Festival "Traditions and Modernity", Gostiny Dvor, Moscow
2024 — "Spiritual World and Earthly Beauty", Vladimir-Suzdal State Historical, Architectural, and Art Museum-Reserve, Suzdal
2024 — "Port Art Fair (PAF) Contemporary Art Exhibition", Sevkabel Port Workshop, St. Petersburg (curated by Anna Zavediy)
2024 — Project for Yandex's flagship TV Station
2024 — Project for the dome at the Lakhta Center as part of the "Interconnections" art residency, St. Petersburg (curated by Sabina Chagina)
2024 — Works in the online gallery catalog, ART Online 24, Moscow
2024 — "Port Art Fair (PAF) Contemporary Art Fair," Sevkabel Port workshop, St. Petersburg (curated by Anna Zavediy)
2023 — Joint replicable project, Generative gallery, Moscow
2023 — Blazar Young Contemporary Art Fair," Museum of Moscow, Moscow
2023 — BALAGANCHIK Circus Shanty in The Wrong Art Biennale in the meta-universe, Nodout
2021 — "Digital Art Fair" Art”, Photoplay, Moscow (curator Ivan Knyazev)