Artist Statement

Artist Statement. Sasha Malysheva ● Contemporary artist

In my artistic practice, I explore zones of oscillation — the constant movement between the living and non-living, the real and virtual, the analog and digital.

In my projects, I create systems where these opposites are not static but exist in a state of continuous transition and mutual permeation.

My mediums include living plants, recycled plastic and digital layers of extended reality. Their combination is deliberate: plants represent organic growth and variability, plastic embodies solidified, anthropogenic materiality, and XR provides a weightless, immersive digital layer. Together, they form hybrid environments where categorical boundaries blur.

This method — the deliberate creation of transitional states — allows me to study the very nature of boundaries in the contemporary world. We exist between physical and digital bodies, between the biological and the technological. My projects serve as testing grounds for observing this dynamic: How does perception shift when the living and non-living coexist in the same space? Where does the real end and the virtual begin when they are woven into a unified experience?

The open, non-hierarchical structure of these systems reflects the endlessness of these transitions. An object is never finished, and its meaning fluctuates with the attention of the viewer, who is drawn into the process of interaction. Thus, art becomes not a fixation of a state, but a tool for mapping the constantly shifting boundary between the worlds we live.

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