Alisa Tsybina

Alisa Tsybina's artistic practice is rooted in her own history - shaped by migration, change and the search for belonging. These experiences have taught her how fleeting and malleable identity is - how it dissolves, reshapes and is constantly in flux depending on the environment. In her work, she deals with this fragility of being human, but also with the possibility of empowering oneself and reinventing oneself again and again. In her works, Alisa Tsybina confronts her personal past as well as collective memory by depicting the human being as a fluid body - in a state of dissolution, suspended between worlds. The human body is at the center, linked to codes such as tattoos, make-up or other external features that form identities and tell social narratives. She produces paintings that move at the interface between realism and abstraction. Figurative elements are combined with surreal, dreamlike scenes in which people, spaces and forms break up and reconstitute themselves. Her works begin digitally - she first creates compositions and narratives, which are then transferred to canvas. She works with bold, high-contrast color combinations and uses a mixed technique of acrylic and oil, airbrush and brush. The central stylistic elements of her work are sharpness, blurring and fading, which run through her pictures like abstract maps. These techniques enable her to depict moments of dissolution and fluidity - as if energies emerge from the figures and spaces and connect with their surroundings.