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Anna Yakusheva
Life as a project. Art as the doorway.

Artist statement
"Know thyself, and thou shalt know the gods and the universe."Hilon
I am an artist explorer, an alchemist, a practical philosopher of the new age, working in the style of metamodernism and being an archivist of my time. My practice explores perception, transformation and the evolving nature of human consciousness through painting, collage and symbolic visual structures.
Over time, I gradually moved away from purely representational work toward a more intuitive and research-based visual language. Today, my work exists at the intersection of image, material and inner experience.
At the core of my practice is an authorial method that I call Quantum Collage — a combination of watercolour, magazine fragments, text and reflective materials.
I am drawn to watercolour because of its fluid and unstable nature. Unlike rigid mediums, it preserves the presence of movement, unpredictability and time within the image itself. Historically associated with observation, travel diaries and intimate forms of recording reality, watercolour allows me to work with states that are difficult to fix completely.
Collage introduces another layer — fragments of contemporary visual culture, language and collective memory. By combining printed materials with hand-painted elements, I explore the tension between the personal and the shared, the physical and the informational. Together, these materials reflect the fragmented yet interconnected way modern perception is formed. Drawn from contemporary visual culture, these fragments are reassembled into layered compositions that function both as visual fields and as archives of perception. Through this process, I explore how meaning is constructed from fragmented experience and how personal and collective narratives become intertwined.
My work often focuses on moments of transition — states in which identity, awareness and perception remain fluid rather than fixed. I am interested in the space between certainty and ambiguity, structure and intuition, the visible and the internal. Geometry, symbolism and layered compositions become tools for examining how reality is perceived, interpreted and emotionally experienced.
Rather than offering direct answers or fixed narratives, I create works that leave space for reflection and personal interpretation. I see art as a living environment for attention — a place where the viewer can pause, observe and enter into dialogue with their own perception.
Across my practice, I return to the idea of “Life as a Project”, an ongoing artistic and philosophical research process in which everyday experience, transformation and self-observation become part of the work itself. This approach allows me to move freely between the personal and the universal, combining rational structures with subjective experience.
Whether through immersive compositions, reflective surfaces or symbolic imagery, I aim to create works that hold both stillness and transformation. These are spaces where inner and outer experience begin to intersect, and where perception itself becomes part of the artwork.
You are invited to enter this journey — not to observe, but to feel.
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