Sasha Zaitseva

Globalized identities / fusion. By merging current consumer objects (plastic toys, charms, etc.) from a globalized culture with those from popular Slavic cultures, Sasha Zaitseva creates hybrid figures that borrow from different universes. She reconstructs a history from objects and their symbols, and questions their components in the formation of identity. Their heterogeneous assemblage underlines the identity conflict of the individual vis-à-vis his community.

Overconsumption / recycling. Sasha Zaitseva accumulates representative objects of the culture of mass to recycle their symbolism alongside everyday objects in the Soviet Union. The gestures of collecting, cutting and unstitching, assembling, embroidering, and re-gluing come in opposition to those of overconsumption. They refer rather to the familiar gestures of her childhood, belonging to a logic of decline, but also a love for DIY, based on what we have on hand
to constitute a language.

Womanhood/recreation. Sasha Zaitseva also uses traditional techniques that history and art history have attributed to women, such as embroidery or carpet weaving, an activity reserved for women in Ukraine. Her flamboyant red Ukrainian and Russian embroidery here asserts «girl power»,...

Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Master's degree in Fine arts, 2018

Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Master's degree in Cultural Studies, 2019

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

2021
Identités globalisées, Laboratiore 193 Gallery, Paris, France

2021 SUM UP, J&NC, Paris, France

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2021
CoviDesign, Greve Museum, Greve, Denmark

2020
Seasonal Repression, Field Projects Gallery, New
York, USA
Reclaimed, Reimagined, Field Projects Gallery, New
York, USA

2019
Salon des Arbustes, Agora, Mantes-La-Jolie, France

2018
Le rouge, Galerie Da Vinci, Paris, France

2017
Salon des Arbustes, Agora, Mantes-La-Jolie, France
Et tu, art brute ?, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York,
USA
Le Mur, Galerie L’Entre monde, Aubervilliers,
France

2016
Salon Regain, Palais des Expositions de Lyon, Lyon,
France
Les mains négatives, Galerie La demeure des Artiste,
Paris, France

2015
La découverte, Galerie Artitude, Paris, France

2014
Salon d’Automne International, Hangar 11, Tel Aviv,
Israel