Tender Ruin of My Body
Alisa Gorshenina
Opening: 18th September at 5:00PM
"The hills carry on a person, a mistress body that is torn and vulnerable but who continues to live and thrive. What does it mean to be tender? What does it mean to be a body that feels, flows, grows, weeps and blossoms?
This exhibition is about fabrique poetry where every part is not an object but a feeling. Hills extend a body and sculptures turn into materialized emotions. A heart, a tear, a head, a flower become an intimate terrain. Everything is soft, vulnerable, alive. Sculptures are delicate and fragile as sprigs in spring. The earth becomes a place where pain takes roots. However, it could give birth to something beautiful...!”
—Alisa Gorshenina
Alisa Gorshenina (Alice Hualice) is a multidisciplinary artist. She has participated in Russian and international exhibitions since 2013. Founder and member of the art group Second Hand (2013–2016). She works in accordance with her own concept of “self-artification”—the convergence of life and art. The personal in her practice grows into the mythological, becoming a way of communicating with the outside world.
Her main media include masquerade practices and techniques of decorative and applied arts, particularly textiles and ceramics, as well as classical painting and drawing. In addition, the artist works with photography, video art, and animation.