Artist Statement
The body is no longer a stable category or it is no longer experienced as a fixed, self-contained form. It is continuously interpreted, scanned, modified, aestheticised, inherited and projected onto. Medicine, technology, image culture and memory all rewrite it. My practice works with post-human embodiment, fertility, ancestral memory, and inherited matter, using painting, textile, and painting-object installation to explore how biological life carries information across generations.
Born during the aftermath of Chernobyl and formed within a post-Soviet context, I work with the body as something fragile, politicised, and continuously reconfigured by history, science, and loss. My work suspended between ancestral memory and fertility biotechnologies, I want to collide ritual systems of the past and engineered futures.
The series Inherited Matter develops this thinking through layered painting processes where botanical, cellular, and fleshy structures emerge as speculative biological systems. Abstraction becomes a way to register inheritance, mutation, and post-human transformation.
My visual language draws on Baroque painting and theatre, understood as historical moments where scientific discovery and ideas of the body were radically shifting. I use slow, layered techniques — drawing, grisaille, glazing — to build surfaces that feel biological and archaeological at once.
Influences from Romeo Castellucci, Katja Novitskova, Anya Gallaccio, and Ana Mendieta inform my approach to the body as unstable, environmental, and symbolic.
Collaboration and interdisciplinary exchange across art, theatre, and material research remain central to my practice.
Bio
Sasha Suvorova is a London-based contemporary artist working across painting, textile, and painting-object installation. Her practice explores post-human embodiment, fertility, ancestral memory, inherited trauma, and the unstable relationship between biotechnology and the body.
Born during the Chernobyl disaster, Suvorova’s work is informed by questions of mutation, epigenetic inheritance, reproduction, and the transmission of memory across generations. Her painting operate as speculative biological landscapes where bodily matter, botanical forms, and abstraction merge into hybrid systems suspended between ancestral pasts and technological futures.
Drawing from Baroque painting, theatre design, mythology, and contemporary post-human theory, Suvorova develops a form of post-human embodiment abstraction in which the body is no longer fixed or stable, but porous, reproductive, and continuously transforming. Her recent series Inherited Matter investigates inherited biological memory and fertility through layered painterly structures that evoke skin, cells, organs, flowers, and synthetic growth.
Suvorova holds a BFA in Painting, an MFA in Stage and Costume Design from the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow, and a degree in Contemporary Painting from the Institute of Contemporary Art Issues (CAI). She also completed a PhD in Theatre Design at the Russian Academy of Arts, where she designed over 80 costumes for a production of Hamlet at the Central Academic Theatre.
Since relocating to London in 2019, Suvorova has expanded her practice beyond traditional painting into immersive installation, painted textiles, and spatial interventions that challenge the physical boundaries of the canvas. She participated in the Turps Off-Site Programme and presented work in the Turps Off-Site Programme Show. Her work positions painting as a living material system shaped by memory, inheritance, and bodily transformation.
My Method
As a multimedia artist, I am interested in different media and topics. After long consideration of how to correctly share it, I have decided to divide them into three different paths. I have created three completely different characters every one of which has its own topics and media in art practice in art, every one of them wears their own clothes or has their own make-up. Thus, Sasha Snow, Baroque anarchist and Alex S were born. Whenever I am into a new topic I decide which of three artists is going to work with it.
SASHA SNOW
Sasha Snow is an artist who works with Urban mythology. Futurism, utopia and dystopia as well as modern storytelling, exploring urban subcultures and shifting positive and negative stereotypes is the feature of her art practice. She often collaborates with street artists, to explore the aesthetic of urban art and mix it with art history. Also, she is interested in NFT and anime art.
Her recent project 'Baroque Anarchy' was her cooperation with Simon Harris. The idea of this project was to collaborate with London urban artists to enrich both subcultures such as fine art and urban art. '' My aim was to take out fine art from galleries and museums and bring them to the streets of London, integrate it into an urban ambience and show it to the wide public. On the other side, I want to bring street art into galleries and museums and by it prolong its life. I was shocked when I realized that the overage life of urban artwork is just three days.''- says Sasha about this project.
Collaboration with London street artist Laststandcell, Banksy tunnel, 2021
Crypto Baroque Anarchist, NFT, 2021
BAROQUE ANARCHIST
Baroque anarchist is an artist and person who has personal counts with Death. she is like a soldier who knows that the battle is lost from the beginning but however still stays on the battlefield till the last breath. So, Baroque anarchist believes that the very weapon they can conquer death is art. Thus, they use materials proven by time like oil and canvas.
Also, the luxury of objects and details are very con objects, details are important like things and objects often live after the death of their owners or creators.
ALEX S
Alex S art practice draws from the theatre aesthetic. This artist has worked for 14 years at the biggest theatre in the world. He was mesmerized by the beauty of this enormous dark building. His art is based on the idea of friendly darkness like the embryo feels in a women's belly. Darkness is safe and comfortable and he is in darkness. The primary /instruments and materials are ephemeral- space, contrast lighting. He's interested in creating magic space and integrating there an object or a human being. his goal is to create a catharsis
