Anastasiia Ianson
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Shower Head, 2026
85 x 20 x 20 cm / bio-protein hair, shower head
A familiar bathroom object is subtly transformed through minimal intervention. Artificial hair replaces the stream of water, turning the shower head into a literal "head" suspended above the viewer.
The work introduces a tactile encounter with synthetic matter. Standing beneath the object places the body in a situation that oscillates between intimacy and mild discomfort.
By displacing the function of a domestic tool, the object reflects on phantom tactility — the ability of artificial materials to evoke bodily presence and emotional projection.
From the ongoing project Synthetic Daydream
The work introduces a tactile encounter with synthetic matter. Standing beneath the object places the body in a situation that oscillates between intimacy and mild discomfort.
By displacing the function of a domestic tool, the object reflects on phantom tactility — the ability of artificial materials to evoke bodily presence and emotional projection.
From the ongoing project Synthetic Daydream
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Lip Mug &
Cheek Saucer, 2026
Cheek Saucer, 2026
10 x 10 x 8 сm / d.12,5 cm / silicone
A familiar domestic gesture of drinking becomes slightly intimate and awkward at the same time. The moment of contact hovers between affection and embarrassment.
Through subtle anthropomorphism, the objects explore how everyday tools can acquire bodily qualities and provoke unexpected emotional responses to synthetic material as it was real.
From the project Synthetic Daydream
Through subtle anthropomorphism, the objects explore how everyday tools can acquire bodily qualities and provoke unexpected emotional responses to synthetic material as it was real.
From the project Synthetic Daydream
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Finger-clothespins, 2025
10.5 x 2 x 3 cm / plastic
A clothespin reshaped into a pair of fingers references the phrase “pinch me,” a gesture used when reality feels doubtful and requires confirmation.
Functioning as a working mechanism, the object imagines a small device capable of performing this bodily test. A familiar household tool becomes a mediator between physical sensation and perception.
Through this minimal transformation, the work reflects on how tactile action can serve as a momentary verification when visual experience becomes unreliable.
From the project Reality Check
Functioning as a working mechanism, the object imagines a small device capable of performing this bodily test. A familiar household tool becomes a mediator between physical sensation and perception.
Through this minimal transformation, the work reflects on how tactile action can serve as a momentary verification when visual experience becomes unreliable.
From the project Reality Check
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interactive installation
House of Chaos, 2025
110×40×40 cm / plywood, cord light on battery
House of Chaos is a freestanding interactive sculpture: a skeletal, weeble-like house that wobbles at the viewer’s touch. Its familiar form suggests stability, yet the structure’s equilibrium is fragile. A gentle push or pull activates chaotic movement, revealing how minimal gestures can shift both spatial and psychological perception.
The skeletal frame — raw plywood facades and roof, without walls — dismantles the usual association of "home" with safety. As the house rocks, creaks, and responds with subtle light shifts, the viewer experiences instability firsthand: chaos is not imposed but entered into, initiated, and felt through bodily interaction.
More about this project
The skeletal frame — raw plywood facades and roof, without walls — dismantles the usual association of "home" with safety. As the house rocks, creaks, and responds with subtle light shifts, the viewer experiences instability firsthand: chaos is not imposed but entered into, initiated, and felt through bodily interaction.
More about this project
Took part in exhibition The Great Disorder (December 2025 - January 2026). HSE Art Gallery, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
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photographic series & collages
Reality Check, 2025
Variable sizes / digital photographs
Reality Check explores moments when reality feels subtly unreliable. The project focuses on situations where familiar environments appear almost normal, yet something seems slightly off.
The series combines urban photographs, collages and studio images into a fragmented visual sequence. Photographs of everyday spaces alternate with constructed distortions, gradually blurring the boundary between document and fabrication.
Within the project, the sculptural object Finger-Clothespins appears both in the images and in the exhibition space. Presented as a functional tool, it introduces a bodily gesture of verification within the constructed visual environment.
Through minimal visual shifts, the work reflects on the quiet sense of unease that emerges when reality remains recognizable yet difficult to fully trust.
Full series & exposition
The series combines urban photographs, collages and studio images into a fragmented visual sequence. Photographs of everyday spaces alternate with constructed distortions, gradually blurring the boundary between document and fabrication.
Within the project, the sculptural object Finger-Clothespins appears both in the images and in the exhibition space. Presented as a functional tool, it introduces a bodily gesture of verification within the constructed visual environment.
Through minimal visual shifts, the work reflects on the quiet sense of unease that emerges when reality remains recognizable yet difficult to fully trust.
Full series & exposition
project on phone — photography
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State Of Caution, 2026
Digital photographs
Photographic series examines the experience of living in a constant state of alertness. The project explores how subtle signals of danger become embedded in the urban environment and gradually shape everyday perception.
Using warning tape found in public space as a central element, the work reflects on how potential threats are marked, contained and normalized. These visual markers create zones where daily life continues under the quiet awareness of possible risk.
The project draws parallels between these spatial signals and the psychological atmosphere shaped by ongoing political and social tensions.
Full series
Using warning tape found in public space as a central element, the work reflects on how potential threats are marked, contained and normalized. These visual markers create zones where daily life continues under the quiet awareness of possible risk.
The project draws parallels between these spatial signals and the psychological atmosphere shaped by ongoing political and social tensions.
Full series
A sculptural element expanding this project
is currently in development using 3D printing technology.
is currently in development using 3D printing technology.
one-day project on phone — video works
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It Just Rolled By, 5 sec // August 30, 2025
Holding Anyway, 5 sec // September 16, 2025
Holding Anyway, 5 sec // September 16, 2025
Minor Turbulence, 2025 -
Selected videos from an ongoing monthly practice exploring everyday urban environments. Footage is collected along repeated daily routes, focusing on temporary constructions, markings, and unstable spatial situations. Edited using layering, repetition, and temporal shifts, the videos function as perceptual experiments and form a growing visual archive that tracks routine and subtle urban changes that informs larger projects.
Other video works
Other video works
one-day project on phone — video & photography
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Walking The Green Line, 35 sec // Rue Brûlée, Strasbourg, France
Rozanova Was Here, 2025
The project follows a short green bike lane in Strasbourg, echoing Olga Rozanova’s Green Stripe. Walking along it, I reflect on the fragile, fleeting traces women leave in art — vivid, persistent, yet often overlooked. The fractured asphalt and fading line mirror how presence survives through time, memory, and attention, turning a brief encounter into a quiet meditation on visibility, legacy, and resilience.
More about this project
More about this project
illustration & zine
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तत्र प्रत्ययैकतानता ध्यानम्, 2024
Unlimited edition / Sanskrit & English / 11×15,5 cm
Tatra pratyaya-eka-tānata dhyānam (PYS 3.2) — "When you focus your attention (psychic energy) on one object, or when you fix your mental suggestion on one idea and hold it there continuously without distraction, the result is meditation (dhyāna)."
This Yoga Sutra forms the foundation of the zine, which combines a meditation guide — a light visualisation practice — with a visual interpretation of the sensations and thoughts arising throughout the process. The work traces a path through shifting meditative states: from chaos and mental entanglement to calmness, culminating in a renewed awareness of reality.
Full zine
This Yoga Sutra forms the foundation of the zine, which combines a meditation guide — a light visualisation practice — with a visual interpretation of the sensations and thoughts arising throughout the process. The work traces a path through shifting meditative states: from chaos and mental entanglement to calmness, culminating in a renewed awareness of reality.
Full zine
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intallation & video-performance
N1-N2-N3-REM, 2024
150 x 200 cm / textiles, graphite / 7 min video-performance
A project exploring insomnia, anxiety, and the restless body. Digital patterns derived from a striped blanket are fragmented and misaligned, reflecting loops, entanglements, and the collapse of linear time.
In the video performance, the blanket becomes both environment and participant. Cycles of struggle, concealment, and surrender unfold, tracing the body’s negotiation with rest. Fabric, gesture, and movement merge, creating a suspended in-between state — neither dream nor wakefulness, but a space of tension and unease.
Full video-performance & exposition
In the video performance, the blanket becomes both environment and participant. Cycles of struggle, concealment, and surrender unfold, tracing the body’s negotiation with rest. Fabric, gesture, and movement merge, creating a suspended in-between state — neither dream nor wakefulness, but a space of tension and unease.
Full video-performance & exposition
Took part in exhibition The Great Disorder, Part 2 (December 2025 - February 2026). The Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow
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