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Alina Belousova will present in Moscow in the exhibition hall “LAVRUSHINSKY 15” of the Volga branch of the Russian Academy of Arts and TSKhR the author’s project “Treasures of Microcivilizations”

On June 6, 2018, the Saratov artist Alina Belousova will present the author’s project “Treasures of Microcivilizations” in the exhibition hall “Lavrushinsky 15” of the Volga branch of the Russian Academy of Arts and the Creative Union of Russian Artists. Opening of the exhibition at 18.00.

Terms of exhibiting: June 6-15, 2018.

Address: Moscow, Lavrushinsky pereulok, d.15, metro Tretyakovskaya.

The creative name of the artist DIGITALINA immediately refers to the topic of digital technology. Using the components of a computer to create her art objects, the artist creates a special world in which a play of meanings arises, reflecting the interaction of a person with reality programmed by modern technical means.

The exhibition “Treasures of Microcivilizations” combines the works and copyright projects of Alina Belousova from different years. The exhibition features photographs, jewelry, panels and digital graphics, art objects created on a variety of topics: evolution, natural selection, progress, technology and many others.

“In an effort to combine and reconcile two realities, and maybe even the past with the future,

I’m trying to analyze what is happening around, as if collecting the leftovers from the picnic of microcivilizations, using their physical form. As she appears to us in this reality. I am collecting from these fragments of form and image discarded by the transience of technological evolution, physical objects and applied things. Just like the craftsmen who worked before the advent of new technologies, I use the texture of the material, as a jeweler with a precious stone or pearls does, and the sculptor uses marble. The material in this case is not docile paint or clay, not a 3D printer that is completely amenable to the will of the artist, but a co-author who owns his character and logic, in which, as in nature, it is not by chance that the difference is only in the creator. Based on this logic, many topics arise by themselves: technological progress and evolution, natural and unnatural selection, human development in a global sense, the expansion of human capabilities and abilities (not only physical ones), parallels between global processes and processes within a person, bionics, transhumanism, networks, boundaries of knowledge and their expansion… ”(from an interview with Alina Belousova).

Alina Belousova (DIGITALINA) - artist, designer, graduated from the Saratov Art College named after A.P. Bogolyubov in 2006. Lives and works in Engels, Saratov Region.

Member of TSHR. Participant of international and all-Russian exhibitions and festivals, academic competitions and exhibitions “Red Gate / Against the Current”, “Between the Volga and the Danube”, exhibition projects of experimental PORAH and TSHR creative workshops: “Square meter”, “Healing paradise”, “L. O. Kh. Reminiscences ”, interregional research projects“ Dialogues with Classics ”,“ Tragedy in the Corner ”. Fellow of the program of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation for the support of young artists.

The author of the environmental art project Digitalina.ru, based on the author’s technique for the recycling of faulty high-tech materials - printed circuit boards, electronic components, etc. Since 2011, he has been an active participant and one of the founders of the REPA art group (repa-art.ru). Since January 2015, he is among the founders, artists and members of the artistic council of the IMHO Gallery of Modern Art in Saratov.