Nika Neelova
(25 years old. Born in Russia. Lives in: United Kingdom)
Slade School of Art
...from dreams of grandeur to fears of mortality...
Taking its origins in the concept of the ruin, my work focuses on the effort to unearth the past as to reveal the fragments of a larger history. Yet any restoration of the past in a way equals its destruction and when uncovered these fragments are irreversibly changed. They enter the light of the wrong day being distorted by the failure of history and the loss of memory, t ...[more]
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Work of art I would like to make
...the impossibility of remembering and the necessity of forgetting...
My personal history is embedded into the collective and adopted history, narrated through the evocation of remembered architectural spaces, houses and rooms that I used to live in. I have created a series of works depicting decaying architectural structures inspired by spaces that once existed. Fragments of these spaces have been rebuilt from materials salvaged from other places or histories, becoming therefore emblematic of both - a cultural and historical displacement, as well as of transience and persistence over time. This series of ‘rooms’ introduced as decaying skeletal installations point to a lost and invisible whole. The installations I make are always very site- and time-specific, responding directly to the features of the space in which they are presented. As a continuation of this project I would like to further explore the architectural presence and manifestation of space as perceived and reconstructed through memory.
The projects aren’t predetermined in advance, they are the continuation of an ongoing studio practice and investigation. I would like to create an installation responding directly to the circumstances and a specific situation in time; an installation produced by an immediate and very sculptural approach accentuating the hand touch and the attachment to a given space, which will find its final appearance in the form of a subtle intervention or an imposing architectural presence. Based on my recollection of these gestures it will be a structure rising into ruin and extending itself into a narrative of a life where past and present coexist in perfect anachronism...
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My Artworks (6)
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