Anna Bochkova

Anna Bochkova

HABITAT

2020

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I build a visual vocabulary based on familiar materials, forms and objects, which are used in a different purpose, so this practice helps me to create my own archive. For me it is important that the space I create becomes interactive and activated. I tend to produce work myself and to let the space for the coincidence and the development of materials themselves.

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So, I work with the space in scenographic manner, building my dramaturgy, where characters are my sculptures. Usually through architectural narrative I reflect to the themes of memory, solidarity, migration, society and its structure. As a migrant I experience in practice my own utopia, but I believe that the space between the borders carries enormous artistic potential. Through my research I am creating heterotopias, which become worlds within worlds, mirroring and yet representing something uncanny in itself, so these conceptual spaces build up a stage for critical reflection and questioning of existing hierarchies.

Anna Bochkova

HABITAT

2020

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My current project does a visual and spatial research on the theme of home, shelter and as said before habitat. Through architectural analysis I try to understand the quality of negative space, personal space, volume within the relevant scale needed to provide us with comfortable existence and to make these definitions tangible.

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We see everywhere ‘keep the distance’ apparently the boarders not only of states but also of every human are getting closed and strongly protected. I think no one has ever paid so much respect to the personal space as now. In this work, I consider these issues on the example of the apartment and the house in which I am. I work with measurements and their relations to one another, moving from large to small. Summarizing objects into geometric functions without unnecessary details, I try to calculate the same empty space by which our privilege is measured.