Xenia Raw

Film director by education and self-taught as painter I rushed between cinema and painting until I came to the conclusion that I was not faced with a choice. I have a double set of tools to express my ideas. Thus, in addition to works in traditional oil technique, a series of installations combined by painting and video-art appeared.

This combination of techniques opens up a huge field of dual themes like the nature of man and his social roles or transformation of material art into the environment of digital space.

In 2021 as an artist you do not have the right to read morals and "impose" your opinion, this is a violation of personal boundaries. I like to open a dialogue and accept the point of view of those who enter this dialogue with me.
I take plots, events and symbols that make the viewer want to find answers within themselves. But I do not leave my own thoughts on the canvas. Asking a question and letting the viewer hear his own answer is the main goal of my work. One of the means to achieve this goal is beauty. In front of a beauty, a person fully opens up and is able to hear his true voice, without fear and influence from the outside.

2004 SCHOOL 1529, MOSCOW

2004 ART SCHOOL NAMED AFTER SEROV, MOSCOW.
Academic drawing, painting, art history

2005 MSU (LOMONOSOV MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY)
Sociological Faculty
(left the 2nd year)

2005 SCHOOL OF PHOTOGRAPHY OF DMITRY DONSKY, MOSCOW
Digital and film photography, light design, optics, composition, work with black and white film

2009 NUCT (NUOVA UNIVERSITA DI CINEMA E TELEVISIONE), CINECITTA STUDIOS, ROME, ITALY.
Film directing and screenwriting.

2011 FOOTHILL COLLEGE, USA, CALIFORNIA, LOS ALTOS.
Painting, art history.

LANGUAGES:
Italian
English
Russian