Hear Russian artist Alexandra Sukhareva in conversation at London’s ICA

Russian artist Alexandra Sukhareva will be in conversation with Kasia Redzisz, Senior Curator at Tate Liverpool, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London on Friday 26 May.

Sukhareva and Redzisz’s discussion will set out a glossary of terms relating to Sukhareva’s work and examine her installations and publishing projects in which she investigates the phenomenology of objects.

Born in 1983, since 2007 Sukhareva has worked from a remote studio near Dubna, a town in Russia’s Moscow region that is home to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. Here she conducts experiments with inorganic toxins, venturing deeper into the world of what she terms “mental habits”: the phenomena by which collective and personal psychic forces impact the material world. She is particularly known for her artistic research, which includes the field project Witness (2013–2015, Mousse Publishing and VAC-press), centring on communities who have left newly-gentrified areas of Moscow in favour of derelict country estates. Sukhareva is currently working on research project Crest in the grass, which explores the enduring impact of the Leningrad Blockade.

The artist’s talk with Alexandra Sukhareva will take place at the ICA in central London on Friday 26 May, 6:30pm. Find out more and book tickets here.