Artists
Taisia Korotkova’s (1980, Moscow, Russia) work combines the pictorial heritage of socialist realism with a critical view of the links between science, technology and power structures. Having studied at the Surikov Institute in Moscow, an institution inherited from Russian social realism, her work is inspired by the stories from the Soviet era. Korotkova has developed her own visual language that combines traditional techniques like tempera on panel, typical of icon painting, with a cool pastel colour palette reminiscent of the optimistic graphics of the Soviet period in the 1960s, the golden decade of the space age. Her iconography explores the tensions between technological progress and its ethical implications, presenting images that invite us to reflect on technological utopias and today’s social challenges. In this line, she also follows a post-humanist thought that, according to Donna Haraway, suggests abandoning the fixed hierarchies between nature, technology and humanity to think in ‘multi-species bondings’, in new alliances that deactivate the extractive logic of the Anthropocene.
