Viktoria Kokorina

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Viktoria Kokorina works with the theme of rejected and marginalised knowledge, with the theme of

fading traces of memory and oblivion as a kind of territory where the transition to the zone of the

invisible takes place through death, devaluation or fragmentation of data. The artist is interested in

this transformation, which creates new substance and meanings.

Kokorina turns to the heritage of archaic peasant embroidery of the Russian North, Dagestan,

Central Asian embroidery in the context of contemporary art. A special feature of artefacts of this

kind is the "erasure" and distortion of the original intention, regrettable loss of authors' names.

The artist feels folk embroidery as a system with the properties of living matter. Just as in organic

processes, embroidery canons have a standard at the level of the species and the possibility of

failures, mutations in individual incarnations, repetitions and variations, degradation and

development.

Education

•MFA in contemporary art, The Learning Environment Higher Shcool, Ivan Novikov’s

studio, Moscow

•Master in Letters, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Solo shows

2023

•Inside the Grass / Peresvetov pereulok Gallery / Moscow

Curatorial projects

2014

•Konstantin Sobolevsky. Gulag Artist / International Memorial / Moscow

Selected group shows

2022

•Waiting / Thursday Foundation for Cultural Projects / Moscow

•Torn where it's thin / InArt Gallery / Vinzavod Contemporary Art Centre / Moscow

•Birds and Bicycles. Ab ovo / Izmailovo Gallery / Moscow

•Textura Gallery residency exhibition at Peresvetov pereulok Gallery / Moscow

•Draw Me Not Fair / XXI Century Gallery / Moscow

2021

•Habitat / Vinzavod. Open / Moscow

•Backstage / Exhibition of fiber art / Fligel Art Centre / Vladimir

•Simulacrum / Open Club Gallery / Moscow

•Mamadets / Peresvetov pereulok Gallery / Moscow

•Hunt for Soluble Fish / Zverev Centre for Contemporary Art / Moscow

2020

•Back to your cell / State Darwin Museum / Moscow