Polochanskaya Sofia
Polochanskaya Sofya is a young artist from Novosibirsk, her work explores the theme of identity and the influence of the environment on it.
EDUCATION:
- 2024 — British High School of art and design, BA in Contemporary Arts
- 2023 — MAHU, 1st Level Academic Continuing Education Program
- 2021 — University of Hertfordshire, Foundation degree
- 2019 — Cambridge School of Visual and Performing arts, Fine art summer course.
- 2017 - 2019 — Children's Art School No1 named after Saninykh, Omsk, diploma of pre-professional additional education under the guidance of V.I.Balandin
- 2016 - 2017 — Krasnopresnenskaya Children's Art School of Moscow,
pre-professional additional education under the guidance of S.M. Semyonov - 2016 — Summer camp of pre-professional additional education programs in Bulgaria
- 2011 - 2016 — Attendance of additional classes of the Fine Arts Studio at school No2030 under the guidance of O.Y. Pshenichnaya
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
- 2024 — Open call vol.6, a—s—t—r—a gallery, curated by Svetlana Taylor
- 2024 — Thesis Exhibition (BHSAD)
- 2024 - Bye New Year, bye adults, curators: Olga Makhno, Mikhail Levin (11.12 Gallery, Artplay)
- 2023 — Degree show (BHSAD)
- 2023 — Prohodnoi dvor (Artplay)
- 2022 — Screening of Underthetable (ZIL Cultural Center)
- 2022 — While the grown-ups are talking, curated by Olga Makhno (U Contemporary)
- 2021 — Pre-degree show, (BHSAD)
“My practice explores the relationship between the visibility of space and its level of conscious perception through painting. I investigate how artificial lighting empowers the individual to control visibility, manipulate attention, and subjectively separate important from secondary locations in contrast to unbiased natural light. I question the influence of environment on human self-perception. I am interested in the assertion that the environment shapes us as individuals, so I view my pictorial spaces as metaphors for the mind. I am interested in the idea of space not only as a repository of personal memories, but also as a carrier of ideology or national identity. In different periods of my practice, I have considered spaces both as a deeply subjective experience and as a social product.”
Sofia Polochanskaya
