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Aleksandra Nazarova Forster is a Swiss-based artist and researcher whose work attends to the hidden infrastructures that govern time, territory, perception, and attention. She is drawn to rooms where a single gesture recalibrates planetary systems: a keystroke at the Paris Observatory synchronising atomic clocks with the irregular spin of the Earth; a radar pulse in the Swedish Arctic bouncing off the upper atmosphere to sense what lies beyond the reach of the body; a glacier on the Swiss-Italian border that retreats and, in doing so, rewrites territorial law. What draws her to these places is that each holds something that exceeds the instrument built to contain it, an emotion, a phenomenon larger than the device made to hold it. She keeps returning to the passage between scales, where a material event at one magnitude restructures perception at another.

Grounded in fieldwork and dialogue with scientists and experts across technical and infrastructural domains, her practice displaces these systems from their operative function and turns them into material. She thinks through making. Through sound, movement, materiality, and moving image, her installations submerge the body in time-based milieus where connections are felt before they are understood, situations in which the weight of these systems registers directly at the scale of the body. She calls this the interstice, the unresolved space that opens when irreconcilable systems are forced to coexist, where what forms there answers to its own logic. The condition she wants to sustain is negative capability, remaining in uncertainty and holding the question open.

aleksandranf@proton.me