Author Archives: jolanta

Lure of the Body is the continuation of my previous series, Vivid as Fruit. All the still objects, plants, and dead bodies are transformed from seafood that infuses my work with life. They seem to own soul and body. Yet, deformed by violence, these objects become dead after all. These dead objects have wounds, viruses, […]

In today’s (post) Society of the Spectacle, where a historical art approach has failed to process satisfactory reality and to generate dynamic forms of specific language, the need to question the status quo of the arts and the artist is essential. Attempting to understand the historical, cultural, and political context can lead to an awareness […]

Leah Oates: Why did you become an artist, and what do you think the function of an artist is in society?Sasha Bezzuvov: I became an artist probably for the same reason many people become artists. What other activity allows a grown-up to spend entire days walking around their house in underwear without the disgrace of […]

D. Dominick Lombardi: On the outside looking in, it appears to me that the big city museum has a tendency toward the blockbuster exhibition since they are angling to attract a large population base that is both indigenous and transient (tourists), whereas regional institutions, especially one like the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, which is […]

One day I left my house and visited a park during a time of my life when things were not going very well. It inspired me and I soon began to do different things in the deserted spaces. I started to visit these places because of the powerful impact that these abandoned places had on […]

If I were to mention two important moments in my formation as an artist, those would be the time I spent in Bilbao on a stipend studying video and performance, and the Jaan Toomik exhibition in Bucharest I saw shortly after coming back to Romania. They were both significant in the sense that they underlined […]