Artist Name: Alexandra Dementieva
Residency Dates: November – December 2011
Hometown: Russia
URL: www.alexdementieva.org
Bio/Statement:
Alexandra Dementieva studied journalism and fine arts in Moscow and Brussels. Her main interests focus on social psychology and perception and their application in multimedia interactive installations. Her videowork integrates different elements including behavioral psychology, developing narrative using a ‘subjective camera’. Her interactive installation projects attempt to widen the mind’s potential for perception using different production materials: computers, video projections, soundtracks, slides, photography, etc. By making certain historical, cultural and political allusions, her exhibition locations create the frame within which the idea develops. The projects explore the spectator’s depths of perceptual experience and the interaction of the individual spectator with the exhibition as well as with other visitors. The subject of an installation or its production method becomes less important to her than the mind of the user. Thus the latter becomes the center of the project or the main actor in the performance.
Support: Alexandra’s residency is made possible from support by the Cultuur, Jeugd, Sport en Media – Vlaamse overheid and the St. Petersburg Art Project
