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BIO

Anya Belyaevskaya (b. 1993, Moscow, Russia) is a visual artist.
Education: Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts (2021)
She has lived and worked in Moscow, Yerevan, Toronto, and is currently based in Mexico City, Mexico.

She works with painting and installation, using light, shadow, and reflection as part 
of her artistic language. Her practice explores the perception of identity through 
multilayered, fragmentary structures that merge personal memory, social context, and surrounding space. Her works invite viewer participation, revealing subjectivity as a fluid and interconnected experience.


Her practice draws on theories of collective memory (Maurice Halbwachs), fragmentation and temporal perception (Jorge Luis Borges), the rhizome (Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari), and metamodernism (Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker), embracing nonlinearity, multiplicity, and the reconciliation of paradoxes.


She has participated in several residencies and solo shows in Mexico and Armenia, most recently presenting an immersive performative piece in collaboration with Mexican artists.

ARTIST STATEMENT

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My artistic research is driven by the desire to define and sustain integrity in the face of constantly shifting identity.


I see the identity of the contemporary person as a fragile structure, composed of multiple lenses containing complex layers of social and cultural memory. It is a complex system of experiences, in a constant state of reassembly, mutable and never complete. This is most vividly manifested in the experience of immigration, which creates radical shifts in context; a person lives with multiple perspectives, with different optics refracting into one another, creating a fragmented and ever-changing backdrop for self-awareness.


The numerous perspectives of a single person are tightly bound by experience and memory. One fragment can point to a complex virtual chain — a sequence of beliefs, memories, and ideas. In a single fragment, we can see the integrity of the whole system, a reference to its transcendental totality. Mutability — and the very fragility that makes it possible — becomes the foundation of this system. I find it important to ask: can mutability itself be a form?


I work with the image of the human being as a small-scale ecosystem or civilization — with its own ruins and forgotten past. It is precisely the past that becomes the primary medium of self-awareness: through reinterpreting oneself in the past and projecting into the future. In my installations, light and reflections become crucial elements through which I speak about ephemerality and changeability. Reflections and overlays form a nonlinear perceptual experience, where no single perspective is final.
I understand subjectivity as a dynamic network where contradictory elements coexist and strive toward wholeness — not through forced unity but through the acceptance of multiplicity. The network becomes an image of relationships, influences, contexts, and connections, where there is no single center but many nodes; individuality is shaped through these nodes and links. My practice resonates with metamodernist thinking; within this framework, I propose an aesthetics of vulnerability as a form of collective experience, inviting new ways of seeing, sensing, and inhabiting uncertainty.


My work seeks to construct a model of subjectivity in which absolute ideals are replaced by multiple individual counter-worlds. I create spaces that encourage deeper understanding and rethinking of personal identity. Through the construction of layered, chaotic, and overlapping structures, I explore the complex and fluid nature of the human being — where fragmentary compositions offer the possibility of recognizing one’s own fragmentation and multilayeredness, and arriving at a reconciliation of opposites.

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