Alex Solodov

Emotional Geography - Territories of Identity.

My work explores the emotional topography of identity - the invisible landscapes shaped by memory, culture, migration, and inner transformation.
Extensive travels across Southern and Central Europe, North Africa, and Mexico have deeply influenced my visual language. I am not interested in documenting places; instead, I absorb their atmosphere - their light, textures, architectural rhythm, and human presence - allowing them to resurface later as emotional imprints within my paintings.
Through expressive lines, fluid pigment, and instinctive gestures, I dissolve the boundary between portrait and environment. Figures are never isolated; they emerge from fields of color and movement, as if shaped by the spaces they inhabit.
I am particularly drawn to strong feminine archetypes - not as individual portraits, but as carriers of cultural memory. Faces become territories. Color becomes language. Dripping forms and layered textures reflect the fluid, unstable nature of contemporary identity - especially within a world shaped by displacement and cross-cultural exchange.
Urban fragments inspired by European cities appear as psychological landscapes - intimate spaces of solitude, nostalgia, and q...

Stroganoff University, Moscow