Natalia Skobeeva explores how the issues of the particular and universal are re-negotiated in the context of ambivalent (non) belonging by humanity in crises, mediated by technology.
Being of transnational background (born in Russia, based in the UK and earlier in Luxembourg, USA and Belgium) I explore how the issues of the particular and universal are re-negotiated in the context of ambivalent (non) belonging by humanity in crises, mediated by technology.
I am interested in transnational (mis)communication and the fictive and fictional collectiveness it creates. I have come to understanding of any culture-related misfit in temporal terms.
My work is hybrid and experimental, and involves words writing, coding and working with Arduino, 3D visualisations, immersive environments, moving image, sculpture, sound and performance. The work oscillates between personal and collective, closed and open-ended, conscious and subconscious, crosses the borders of all media and carries characteristics attributed to transnational art: multiplicity, liminality and hybridity.
Recent exhibitions include Wrong Biennale/Arebyte Gallery 2020, VideoBrazil Biennale, Suoja festival, Finland 2019, Deptford X, The 6th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Taiwan, 10th Shiryaevo Biennale, Russia, Rencontres Internationales Festival Berlin/Paris, LUMINOCITY biennale, Canada 2018, Manifesta 11, LOOP festival Barcelona 2017, Tenderflix, Bristol Biennale, Vision in the nunnery 2016, 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary art, 15th WRO Media Art Biennale, Retrospective of ‘Now&After’ video art festival among others.
Biographies of Objects
HD Video / 06:13 min / 2018
‘Biographies of Objects’ approaches the biggest contemporary crises of today – ecological crises – through linking and interrelating complex and disparate seeming ideas of quantum physics and migration. The work establishes alliances between the particles and the waves of the known universe and the human footprint of Anthropocene, while disclosing the tools (technology) that has been used by the human kind. The work denounces the separation of humanity from its actions and proposes new way of looking for the possible solutions.