Permanent Presentation, December 5-8, 2019

Anna Khodorkovskaya

Just say OK — Text Works

Opening: December 5, 2019, 18:00, Z!R Galerie Kunst!Raum

(further works to be presented at echoraum)

 

[Anna Khodorkovskaya: Just say OK]

Just say OK

Visual artist Anna Khodorkovskaya shows a selection of her text-based mosaics and paper works.

My text works are based on words and phrases; they are fragments, debris of their contexts. Perhaps these are remains of thoughts; or snippets of a conversation with a friend; or something that stopped me while reading, or a phrase snatched from media. These are the moments when a text suddenly refuses to carry its meaning and becomes mystery. I pull these words out of their context, out of the big picture they were embedded in, and claim them for myself to examine them in another state. This state is both visual and abstract: visual because I give them shape, color, and materiality; abstract because a text loses its original meaning and becomes an abstraction. As a way of studying these debris of reality, I chose to depict them in a form of mosaic. Mosaic glass stones are originally fragments and pieces themselves. Tile by tile, they are to be collected and a new whole is to be constructed.

[Anna Khodorkovskaya]

Anna Khodorkovskaya

Anna Khodorkovskaya was born in Moscow. She studied in Moscow State University of Printing Arts and in Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Anna Khodorkovskaya lives and works in Vienna. She uses painting, graphics, mosaics, performance, digital and online practices, and transmedial techniques as well as collaborations to realize her artistic projects. Anna Khodorkovskaya’s work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. In 2014 she received the Strabag Artaward International.

http://www.annakhodorkovskaya.com