Serafima Bresler - Contemporary Artist and Printmaker
Home and Memory
My artist practice is concentrated on exploring the domestic space, both mental and physical. I believe that the personal space, especially the house, is an environment in which there is a high concentration of images, thus it becomes a real mental event, sometimes revealing deep, archetypal levels of the psyche. The house resembles a tool for examining collective memory, the meaning of the family, and my function in it, as well as the feeling of fear and the fight against anxiety. These themes are traced as well as researched through dissecting images of the mundane. In psychology the notion of «image» is interpreted ambiguously: it can be «seen», stored in memory, reproduced, imagined, i.e. it reveals various mental depth. However, the image is always our own inner space created by the play of our imagination, i.e. it is always poetic.
I am interested in mundane objects whose function is simple and natural, but which are charged with multiple aspects of emotions and states and preserved valuable memories. Choosing one of the real objects and transforming its image through various artistic manipulations, it becomes the intermediate target, showing a piece of reality and my attitude, becoming a metaphor in my poetics. The poetics serve for me in a form of finished installation: a collection of images in a single space that interprets a certain story to the viewer.
I have vided experience of image-making. I open to commerce. If you wish to see my portfolio you are welcome to the "Commission Project" section.
Education
2020-now
2018-2020
2017-2018
Working Experience
2020 -
now
Technician in Printmaking Studio in BHSAD
2020
ZIL Culture Centre
Series of photos and postcards
2020
Documentary film "Slice of Lemon"
Poster, illustrations, presentation
2019
Street Child United
Worked as a tutor helping children to make zines, posters and organized the exhibition
2019
Fumetto Festival
As a volunteer, helping with organization
as a participant , seeling zine on the market
2019
Collaborated with fashion designer, HM
Video with elements of traditional animation
2019 -
now
Benzine Shop
Selling my zines, working as an illustrator
2018
Meyerhold Theater Center
Illustrator and graphic designer (poster)
2018
MSU Festival
Illustrator and graphic designer (poster, book cover, merchandise)
Exhibitions and Festivals
2020
"Chernovik"
Group exhibition, Union Printing on Winzavod
2020
Graduation Show
Group exhibition, BHSAD
2020
"CRUKRINOXES"
Group exhibition, Zdes Na Taganke
2020
"Parallels of Visual Perception"
Group exhibition, MOCX Gallery
2020
Zil Fest
Participant, ZIL Culture Center
2019
"Miss Read"
Print festival, Berlin
2019
"Find a Friend"
Group exhibition, Gallery Electrozavod
2019
'Music School'
Individual exhibition, Ground Gallery
2019
'Truth and Lies'
Group exhibition, BHSAD (as curator and exhibitor)
2019
'Posle Zavtra'
Market, Pluton Russia
2018
The Open Show
Group exhibition, Anima Gallery
2018
SadExhibition
Group exhibition, Pluton Gallery
2018
Foundation Degree Show
Group exhibition, BHSAD
Publications
2020
ОБЪЕДИНЕНИЕ
Вернисаж
21th September 2020
ARTCONNECT magazine
Favorite Projects
17th August 2020
2020
2020
RBC Style
Generation Z interviews
May 2020
2020
LADIES DRAWING CLÜB
Issue #4 Russia
March 2020
2020
CultUrna
Online Gallery Russia
October 2020
2019
Average Art
Issue #31 UK
February 2019