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Aleksandra Nazarova is a Swiss based Artist, Designer, and Researcher who has spent time in rooms where a single gesture recalibrates planetary systems. A keystroke at the Paris Observatory synchronises atomic clocks with the irregular spin of the Earth. A radar pulse in the Swedish Arctic bounces off the upper atmosphere to sense what no human body can feel. A glacier on the Swiss-Italian border retreats and, in doing so, rewrites territorial law. What attracts her to these places is that each one holds something that needs more than a simple truth to be described. An emotion, a phenomenon that exceeds the instrument built to contain it. She keeps returning to the passage between scales, where a material event at one magnitude restructures perception at another. Her work tries to contain these passages physically. Her practice lives in fieldwork and dialogue with experts working across scientific, technical, and infrastructural domains and moves into material form. She thinks through making. Materiality, sound, movement, moving image accompany and influence the work. Each installation submerges the body into an emotional, phenomenological, time-based milieu where connections between things become felt before they are understood. Nazarova is drawn to hidden infrastructures, the ones that govern time, territory, perception, attention. Her practice displaces these infrastructures from their operative function, turns them into materials, and builds situations where the weight of these systems registers directly at the scale of the body. She returns to what she calls the interstice, the space that opens when irreconcilable systems are forced to coexist. What forms there belongs to neither. Negative capability, being in uncertainties without reaching after resolution, is the condition she wants to sustain.
Upcoming
19 – 26 April 2026 | Exhibition at “Hello, Darkness” We Will Design BASE, Design Week, Milan
16 – 21 June 2026 | “Kiefer Hablitzel / Göhner Art Prize”, Swiss Art Awards, Basel, Switzerland
6 June – December 2026 | “On Measurement”, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands