Alexander Belov

My canvases accumulate a sediment of memory from different places, different languages ​​and cultures. The work is done with slowly drying oils, varnishes and resins, as a counteraction to the hyperspeed with which information circulates today. Unruly materials escape control, flow away, mix, they are sensitive to the humidity in the studio, dust and light, the substance of paint and the forces of gravity themselves become co-authors and manifest their material existence. Each painting is a “non-linear landscape”, a place where cause and effect are confused. The collapse of linear narrative is not a fall into meaninglessness, but rather a transition to networked meaning. I think of my paintings as compost heaps where diverse matter is destroyed and recombined, where rot and decay are not a finished product, but soil in the process of becoming.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 Hive, Kz gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2018 Missing Alive, "Attic Space", Saint Petersburg, Russia

2015 Language Without Bones, re.FLEX Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2014 CUTTINGS, Unconquered Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2014 Untitled, Abandoned Building, Red Triangle, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2008 Happy Childhood, Navicula Artis Gallery. Saint Petersburg, Russia

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 Escape River Map, Red Anti-Biennale, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2022 Not trash, but Sabbath, Cultural space "It's Here", Saint Petersburg, Russia

2021 Reproduction of fireflies, LYUDA Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2021 Red River Map, Red Biennale, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2021 You will never identify me, Kz gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2020 Kingdom of Euphoria, Biennale Mir Bez Truda II, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2020 AUGENHINTERLAND, KULTDVORETS, Ekaterininskoe Sobranie, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2020 Untitled-4, «PESKI». Walk, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2020 Untitled, Antonov Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2019 Invisible Work, Biennale on Kanonersky Island, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2019 Dracula's Mirror, Teenage Colonialism, Factory 34, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2018 Untitled, "Ab...