Sasha Gosmant (b. 1985, Cheboksary) is an interdisciplinary artist working with the concepts of emotions, intuition, and irrationalism. In her practice, she often uses everyday materials and found objects, combining them in unexpected ways and rendering them almost unrecognisable. She is interested in the problems of collective experience in the eco-technological future, and her installations often explore how the spiritual becomes intertwined with the technological.
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Everything Is Possible, 2021. Gosmant creates a visual conceptual history of objects in the Anthropocene, questioning the premise she cites in the title of her project
Everything Is Possible, 2021. The myth Gosmant creates is centred around the Cyberunicorn and the Rider, whose image is based on the one of the Virgin from 16th century French tapestries
Everything Is Possible, 2021. The Rider’s image here is turned into an archive of similar faces generated by Nvidia’s StyleGan neural network
Everything Is Possible, 2021. The fragmented images can be interpreted as a result of the attempts to move between the technological world and the analogue one. Curator: Daria Tikhomirova
Distant Touch, 2021. The instruction for the visitors asked them to listen to their breathing and feel present before entering the space. Daipyat Gallery, Voronezh. Curator: Daria Epin
Distant Touch, 2021. The installation explores the perception through touch, the touch as a ritualised form of communication, and its meaning in magical thinking
Distant Touch, 2021. Gosmant is interested in the new technology-related phenomena in this field, from biohacking to online prayers and alternative practices like using crystals and manifesting desires
Distant Touch, 2021
Standard Journey, 2018. Smirnov & Sorokin Foundation. This artwork is an attempt to show the possibility of combining organic with non-organic beings
Standard Journey, 2018. Smirnov & Sorokin Foundation. Gosmant challenges our expectations through making the latter aesthetically attractive and thus changing the perception of the entire hybrid
Standard Journey, 2018. Smirnov & Sorokin Foundation. The artist pushes our frames of perception and reflects on the blurred limits of imagination, which makes possible for us to abandon the dualistic perception of the world
The Unknowns, 2020. Curator: Oksana Chvakina. MMOMA museum, Moscow
Digital graphics from the Glitch-Horoscope project representing the 13th zodiac sign of the Ophiuchus. 2019
Zond. Sculpture from the Animism project, 2017. Curator: Nastya Skvortsova. Namegallery, St Petersburg
Mask. Sculpture from the Animism project, 2017. Curator: Nastya Skvortsova. Namegallery, St Petersburg
