the project is supported by SPIN
Supporting Principal Investigators 2024
Sasha
KOROBOV
Sasha Korobov is a video artist working with spatial transformations and symbolic narratives. His practice explores the relationship between humans and their fantasies, objects and their environments, examining post-human conditions through visual metaphors. His work blurs boundaries between reality and fiction, creating uncanny spaces of uncertain meaning.
📍 Russia →
France
A place for us to dream
AI sculptures as a symbol of our inevitable impact on the surrounding world highlight that this influence can be both positive and negative, but it always leaves its mark. In a way, they emphasize our connection with nature and how we affect and change it with our presence.
2024, 01'30"
Jardin D'été
Summer Garden
The work represents the spatial interaction between visual and verbal narration, as well as the influence of context on the creation of meaning.
The video features a Russian-dubbed dialogue from Jean-Luc Godard's film "Vivre sa vie" ("My Life to Live").
Filmed in the Summer Garden of St. Petersburg, the sculptures, imported from Europe and installed in this garden, represent an adaptation of European art for the Russian imperial context.
2021, 06'50"
Video-sculptures: Detached head
The artwork reflects the unsettled feeling of being away from home, lacking attachment to a specific place, and the absence of a place to return to.The head serves as a symbol, encompassing all fundamental elements of human consciousness, inspiration, and expression. In ancient cultures, the majority believed that the soul, life force, and guardian spirit (daimon) resided within the head.The daimon, in this context, becomes a guardian providing hope, instilling faith in oneself and others, in actions, and the ability to overcome adversities along the journey.
2022, 02'30"