Anna Kudryashova
Bio
Anna Kudryashova lives and works in Tilburg, Netherlands. Mostly works with video-registrations of performances, installations, performances and videos. She was born in 1996 in Cheboksary, in the Chuvash Republic of Russia. At the age of thirteen, she emigrated with her mother to a Belgian village right on the border with the Netherlands. The unfamiliar surroundings and language barriers posed challenges in communication, but also inspired her to explore new ways of expressing her inner world.
In 2022, Anna graduated from the Fine Arts department at St. Joost in Den Bosch.
Artist statement
I work with video, performance and installation. Time is one of my primary materials. Through moving images, performative actions and fragile sculptural pieces, I explore processes of transformation: how memories shift, identities evolve and forms emerge, decay and reappear.
I create objects by hand from materials that carry impermanence within them, including clay, papier-mâché, plaster, soap. I am interested in temporary structures and the ways they change through time, environment and interaction: both manmade and non-human. Repetition plays an important role in my practice, often resembling ritual, a way of paying attention and creating meaning through recurring gestures.
Growing up in the Chuvash Republic and later emigrating to the Netherlands shaped my awareness of living between cultures, languages and ways of belonging. Research of preservation, adaptation, (dis)belonging and loss continue to inform my work.
My projects are mainly site-responsive: once I am seeking to a proper way to communicate with the environment, the other time I let the surroundings to take care of me. I place my body, materials and fragile constructions within nature and its microecologies, creating situations where transformation can begin. In my work, destruction is not an endpoint but one of the states of an ongoing cycle through which new forms, relationships and possibilities for belonging coexist in a non-linear timeline.