Alisa Gorshenina

Alisa Gorshenina
(Alice Hualice / HUA)

Textile, digital collage, video art, ceramics

Alisa was born in the village of Yakshina and have been living in Nizhny Tagil since she was 6 years old. After graduation from the Nizhny Tagil Pedagogical Academy, she was a member of the art group SECONDHAND from 2013 to 2016. In addition to the activities within the group, she was engaged in personal projects and since 2017 remains active as solo artist.

Alisa's original artistic experiences were gained creating illustrations which she transformed into printed graphics. Working in an art group called "Second-hand", she began recreating her graphic illustrations using textiles as their base. In 2016, she created a graffiti image of the "7 Maidens of Graphics" on the wall of her school. Later her work featured themes of appreciation of the Urals mythology,
exploring local identity through the inclusion of unique Urals images in universal contexts.

Later her work featured themes of appreciation of the Urals mythology, exploring local identity through the inclusion of unique Urals images in universal contexts. Alisa considers herself a complete artist, as she works in many mediums
and using multiple techniques, including painting, drawing, textile sculpture,
fashion and jewellery design, video art, animation, photography, digital photo
collages, and she also works with metal and ceramics.

Selected works

Textile

Digital photo collage

Video art

Russkoe inorodnoe / 2018

A series of textile objects and digital photo collages

Russkoe inorodnoe means "Russian alien, or Russian foreign" in a literal translation. It is also based on a wordplay "Russkoe I narodnoe" meaning "Russian and folk".

With this phrase describe how artist feel about myself. All the collages in this series are united by this main motto, where attributes and symbols important for me are connected in one melting pot.

The project Russkoe inorodnoe is an organic development of the previous project of Alice – The Ural Coma and it plays around the similar concepts of national, decorative, nature/and natural and bodily.

Coat of the Urals / 2016-2017

a series of textile objects

The project of Alisa Gorshenina is an attempt to demonstrate the transformation of contemporary art in the space of fashion and design, where a person is given the role of a passive consumer. It is no longer traditional for the fashion environment to look for meanings; fashion has only a decorative role now. Therefore, it is especially important for us to show how manual, couture work (embroidery and inlay, complex cutting and work with fabrics) can become a tool for a social message and art manifesto.

We be of one blood / 2018

Textile object (archive)
A series of 3 textile 'skins'

Family taxidermy skins. My grandma, my mother and I (artist)

Selected exhibitions and publications

2016

Nizhny Tagil State Pedagogical Academy, the Art and Graphic Faculty

2018

"Ural skin", VDNKh, Pavilion № 16, Moscow, Russia
"My inheritance", gallery Larina, Krasnodar, Russia

2017

"Travelling on mammary gland", apartment № 39, Nizhny Tagil, Russia

2015

"Ural coma", gallery «Space Pace», Nizhny Tagil, Russia
Action "7 Holy maidens", Nizhny Tagil, Russia

2018

Norske tekstilkunstnere art recidency, Norway
"Everything is not what it seems", Ural Branch of National Center for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Yekaterinburg, Russia
"Properties of body", Gallery Bursa, Kyiv, Ukraine
"What are you carrying?", Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Yekaterinburg, Russia

2017

"Scary tale", Space GROUND, Moscow, Russia
"Work never ends", Special Project of the 4th Ural Industrial Biennale, Museum Complex Slovtsova, Tyumen, Russia
"Taming the void: 50 years contemporary art of the Urals", Ural Branch of NCCA, Yekaterinburg / NCCA Moscow / NCCA Arsenal, Nizhni Novgorod (2018) / NCCA Samara (2018) / Center for Urban Culture, Perm (2018)
Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, Garage Museum, Moscow, Russia

2016

"Nonrandom connection", Ural Branch of National Center for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Yekaterinburg, Russia
"Bazhov Fest. New Ural mythology", Ural Branch of National Center for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Yekaterinburg, Russia / Center for Urban Culture, Perm, Russia
"Point" of the SecondHand art group, Department of Contemporary Art of the Togliatti Art Museum, Togliatti, Russia

2015