Alina Zhdanova - Statement
Born in Moscow, Russia, raised in Japan. Video artist, visual artist, graphic designer. Interested in the theme of memory and my work organized by elements of my experience and memorization. Making a mixed-media animation such using various materials and techniques, making an abstract painting.
My study theme is a visualizing of oblivion. In the process of oblivion, memory is formed by an adoption or rejection of brain storage. Oblivion is breaking of memory and it builds the process of identity. The unnecessary information is cut off when memory is stored. So the question arises: if the stored memory forms an identity, is it possible to make another identity king of stacked information that has been forgotten? I’d like to consider and express it from my artist position.
Member of The Light Unit for the Liazan between Science and Art
https://sites.google.com/view/kyotoscienceart/top
CV
■Work Experience
Monochrome Design Director, freelance as a Video Artist, Visual Artist and graphic Designer 2015
2019 CELEBRATION -Japanese Polish Contemporary Art Exhibition- film showing (Kyoto Art Ceneter, Kyoto Japan)
have a nice day! sex worker(Creative Center Osaka, Osaka Japan)
2016-2017 CAF AWARD Selected Exhibition (Gallery 9.5、Kyoto Japan)
2016 SilenceAwarenessExistence Artist in Residence (ARTELES, Finland)
ULTRA×ANTEROOM Exhibition (Gallery 9.5, Kyoto Japan)
Nagoya Film Meeting 2016 (Aichi Arts Center, Aichi Japan)
HIROSHIMA INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL (JMS Aster Plaza, Hiroshima Japan)
Busan International Exhibition of Film Animation Creation (Busan, Korea)
2015 CAF 2015 ART AWARD Exhibition(3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo Japan)
■Education
2019- Ph.D. Student of Media Art, Kyoto City University of Arts
Study: The Visualizing of Oblivion in video expression
2011-2012 Moscow State University
2010-2015 B.A. - Kyoto University of Art and Design
Information Design Department, Image Media Course
■Awards
2016 Residence programme, Silence Awareness Existence, ARTELES, Finland
2015 Selected Prize, ULTRA AWARD 2015
2015 Grand Prize, The 2nd CAF AWARD
2015 Incentive award, Graduate Exhibition of Kyoto University of Art and Design
Collection:ARGOS Center for Art and Media, Belgium