Aleksandra Laika is an artist from Moscow, Russia. She studied figurative art at Moscow Theatrical Arts & Technical College from 1998 to 2002 and currently lives and works in London. She produces narrative works that drift between past and present. Drawing on influences from traditional Slavic arts and crafts and Russian religious iconography she reassembles the connection between various different worlds.
In her practice, reality displays its fragility and transparency and is shrouded by a more tangible and vivid fantasy. The dreamlike and the day-to-day share the same canvas being opposite in complementary contrast to each other. Sometimes they swap places without warning, with the final piece not being fully in either world but existing in a stasis, constantly spinning and morphing. Decorative and rich in appearance, her works are accompanied by an underlying feeling of displacement.
Aleksandra Laika
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www.aleksandralaika.com
The Arch Window 