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STANISLAVA KIRSANOVA

stanislava kirsanova

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Artist Statement

My artistic practice has been shaped by the English figurative school of the twentieth century, by the work of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, in which corporeality becomes a carrier of inner tension and existential experience. However, the nature of  my work is not only art history but also personal experience of living between different cultures—an experience marked by the absence of a stable sense of “home” and belonging.

I see art as a way of exploring what it means to be human: how we look at the world, how we come to know it, and how the self is formed in constant movement between languages, cultures, points of view, and bodily sensations. I attempt to reflect on these questions through painting and graphics, working with the deformation of form, collage-based compositional strategies, and layered textures as tools for analyzing perception.

The space in my works is deliberately compressed or smoothed out—it is stripped of stable perspective and functions as a field of uncertainty and interpretation. The figure and the body within this space become not so much the image of a specific person as carriers of experience: cultural, corporeal, emotional, and contradictory.

In my current project, The Phenomenon of Silence and Emptiness, I explore moments when an image stops explaining something and instead creates a pause — a state of silence. By refusing a clear story or a fixed identity, I invite the viewer to face emptiness: not only as a feeling of losing a whole, stable self, but also as a space where this self can be questioned, changed, and rebuilt.

education

Central Saint Martins, UAL – Graphic Design (BA) – 2019-2023
Studying at CSM was where design stopped being just a skill and became a way of thinking.

 

The Graphic Design program pushed me to merge technique with concept, discipline with creativity, and to engage thoughtfully with the evolving language of contemporary art. City University London – Organizational psychology (MA) – 2023-2024 British School of Design in Moscow – Art Management in Contemporary Art – 2025-2026

Artist Statement

The visual philosophy of my paintings was shaped under the influence of the English school — the ability to combine the raw sincerity of the image with the material density of the brushstroke, as developed in the 20th century by Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. My practice merges the discipline of observation with the deliberate deformation of form: I employ graphic compositional techniques as well as collage-based solutions to heighten the tension between reality and its distortion.


I work across painterly and graphic methods, combining multilayered textures of paint, crumpled or smoothed spaces, and abrupt brushstrokes that preserve the trace of movement and time. This approach allows me to position my works in the space between empathy and detachment — the point at which the desire to interpret and explore the subject emerges.

education

Central Saint Martins, UAL – Graphic Design (BA) – 2019-2023
Studying at CSM was where design stopped being just a skill and became a way of thinking.

 

The Graphic Design program pushed me to merge technique with concept, discipline with creativity, and to engage thoughtfully with the evolving language of contemporary art. City University London – Organizational psychology (MA) – 2023-2024 British School of Design in Moscow – Art Management in Contemporary Art – 2025-2026

images of distortion

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искажения

project: silence

образы искажения

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project: alice in wonderland

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independent works

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проект: "сырой континент"

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project: raw continent

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project: alice in wonderland

независимые работы

project: raw continent

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project: silence

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project: raw continent

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project: alice in wonderland

independent works

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The artworks can be purchased. Check all the information by phone or email 

biography

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