Aleksandra Kotova

Aleksandra Kotova
Surrealist · Conceptual Nude Photographer · 3D Visual Artist


I grew up in Dnipro — a city where I spent years unable to locate myself among the people around me. I followed social scripts that never fit, moved through a world that felt simultaneously aggressive and indifferent. What saved me was not people, but nature. From the age of eleven, I understood that the natural world was the only space where I felt loved without condition, protected without performance.

That early refuge never left me. It became the ground on which all my work stands.


Since childhood I have lived with extraordinarily vivid, physically felt, lucid dreams — interrupted at times by the paralysis of sleep and the visions that come with it. When I described what I saw, people were surprised. I am still uncertain whether this is a neurological characteristic or simply the signature of a sensitive soul. What I know is this: surrealism, for me, is not a style. It is the more honest reality. I lost my grip on physical objects as anchors long ago. The interior world — its symbols, its logic, its terror and its beauty — is more substantial to me than its outer reflection.

This is why I do not consider myself a photographer. I use the camera ...

2024 "Each other" Group exhibition Barcelona