Sasha Kochetkova

Lives and works in Paris, France

Artist statement

Acting in a period of irreversible expansion of digital reality, I, as an artist, turn my gaze to man and the world of material memory. Scanning the surface of this world with a lidar lens, I look for "rabbit holes", violations in the usual pattern of the system – points of manifestation of contingency. Digital Glitch points them out to me. Glitch is not a mistake that needs to be fixed, but a tear in the fabric that opens the way to a new form of co-existence. Glitch is a new way of looking at the world. Glitch is a strategy, as Legacy Russell calls it. Being alive means being full of flaws, and it is in these failures – human and digital – that I find themes for my projects and the basis for an artistic method that is also shaped by the idea of duality and the blurring of disciplinary barriers. Having a classical art education and many years of experience working with digital technologies, I choose to work with different materials at the junction of fundamentally different mediums: traditional techniques such as oil painting and digital formats such as 3D animation, video or "moving pictures". For me, this is not a conflict of formats, but a form of coexistence. A new way to look at reality through the prism of a system failure, and through the mutual penetration of various artistic systems. In my projects, I'm talking about a fragile, weak, but vibrant humanity that is looking for its way and deserves another chance. Turning to new strategies such as Glitch, I call for...

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