Anastasia Bogomolova (Russia)

Anastasia Bogomolova conducts research and takes an artistic approach to performative practices, and she documents her process through installations, photography, video, sound and text. In her projects, she studies facial expression as a theme, a methodology and a visual language and uses the imitation of everyday rituals as an artistic method. Her key themes are forgetfulness, the flexible nature of memory and the depiction of traces.

During her residency, she will further develop a project that in its original form thematised invasive species in nature, but which has taken on new layer of meaning for her in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As an artist in Russia, she daily asks ethical questions about her practice and her artistic language, and how, in her view, the invasion of the world of plants no longer appears to be solely an ecological phenomenon, but also symbolises the complete violation of boundaries.