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Artist statement

The main research of my work is the questions of life and death, memory, self-identification, search for connections between the past and the present, archives.

I look for answers to these questions in my own reflections, choosing self-portraits, archival photographs and letters from other people as a tool.

The self-portrait collages recreate the part of me that was lost for various reasons. Feeling mentally broken, I began to put myself back together as I used to feel. Memories of myself, lost dreams and desires are my state today.

Archival material is a tool with which we reconstruct our memory, our social past. Memory is a plastic material that is subject to change and distortion. People connect themselves with the past only through emotions and experiences. A person reserves the right to selective memories.

My works are intended to engage the viewer in thinking about who we are today and who we were in the past, what we carry within us.

I use mixed media in my projects. I prefer analog printing (cyanotype, van dyke), polaroid, image transfer. I work with simple materials - paper, scissors, glue, canvas, paint.   

Ainur Sakisheva

was born in 1980 in Kazakhstan.
Since 1985 she has been living in Ukraine.

She has been engaged in photography since 2020.

Ainur pays most attention to self-portraits and collages. Self-identification through collaging self-portraits, observing and recording internal states, searching for shapes and lines in the environment as a source of inspiration. The artist considers a balanced form of existence to be a combination of the inner world with its reflection in the world around. She uses associative thinking, which is sometimes consistent, sometimes absurd and unnatural.

Recently, Ainur has been thinking more about the essence of memories, memory imprints, and the time space between the past and the present. She works with the archival material of others.

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