"Beyond the visible". Interview with JS Gallery
- Apr 11
- 3 min read
Especially interview for JS Gallery. Anna shares reflections on her artistic journey and evolution of her practice. January,2026
1.Your practice bridges art and research, emotion and intellect. How do you define the role of the artist-researcher in today’s metamodern context?
I don’t separate my personal inquiry from my art, the two are naturally intertwined. What matters to me is that the dialogue with the viewer is not about delivering knowledge, but about sharing an honest human experience. In a time when we constantly move between doubt and hope, emotion and reason, metamodernism feels like a space where uncertainty can be both questioned and accepted.
Today, I see the artist-researcher as someone who stays present within the urgent questions of their time without offering definitive answers. Instead of conclusions, they create visual frameworks where reflection can continue.
2. Many of your works explore the human psyche and ego projections. What initially drew you to these psychological themes, and how do they shape your visual language?
Themes of psychology and inner human nature have long been present in my work, but they deepened after moving to a new country and becoming a mother of three. A new culture, language, and life role led me to reassess both myself and my artistic direction.
During that period, my visual language shifted. I moved from depicting what I saw externally to working with what I experienced internally. Words and symbols began to appear as subtle markers of internal states. Later, magazine fragments entered the compositions, gradually shaping what I now call Quantum Collage, a method of assembling fragmented elements into a cohesive visual structure.
3. In series such as Neural Networks and Matrix, you combine geometry, symbolism, and collage. How do you see the relationship between scientific structures and spiritual exploration in your art?
For me, scientific structures and inner experience are not opposites. I’m interested in the point where formal systems intersect with perception. Geometry provides structure, lived experience activates it.
In the series Beyond Illusion, I explore the boundary between illusion and expanded perception, using multidimensional geometric forms as metaphors for this expanded vision. These forms cannot be fully represented in three-dimensional space, and that tension between what can be seen and what exceeds visibility becomes central to the work.
Geometry functions as a structural system, while collage introduces fragmentation and multiplicity. Together, they construct a visual language that questions how we perceive and organize reality.
4. You often use reflective materials in your compositions. Is this a metaphor for self-awareness, or does it serve another conceptual function in your creative process?
Reflective materials in my work are less about literal mirroring and more about activating the composition. They make the image responsive to presence. In works like «Ego», reflection is not symbolic — it becomes part of the structure itself. The viewer’s presence alters the visual field, shifting the experience from observation to participation.
Rather than illustrating self-awareness, these materials introduce instability into perception. The image is never fixed, it changes depending on who stands before it.
5. What questions or ideas are guiding your current body of work, and how do you envision the evolution of your artistic research in the coming years?
I am currently focused on questions of consciousness and internal orientation — how we navigate a world where external reference points are unstable. I am also interested in the moment when our perception of reality begins and how our personal view of the world is formed.
Over time, I’ve realized that the value of this research lies less in finding answers and more in sustaining the inquiry itself. All of this research dynamics is gradually coming together in my long-term author's project titled “Life as a Project”.
At the same time, I continue to develop Quantum Collage and experiment with recreating some of my works in sculpture. This has become a new layer of discoveries, which is slowly turning into something bigger and is already beginning to influence the further evolution of my visual language.
