Marina Sazonenko

I try to constantly learn and develop. I am currently working as a project manager at the Fabrika Contemporary Art Center. The Graduate School of Art and Design gave me the impetus to explore children’s literature and children’s creativity. From time to time, I share my knowledge in scientific and popular articles. In my creative work, I use many techniques of decorative and applied creativity, but I especially like to work with textiles and wood.

My first exhibition was related to children’s paper art of the Soviet period https://slonvboa.ru/sovietgender as part of the exhibition, I conducted many master classes and created my own author’s course for children. I taught the course at different venues, improved and modified it. After I became interested in textiles, I not only included them in children’s classes, but also created author’s embroidery courses for adults.

The first exhibitions I participated in were devoted to painting and photography. Later, as part of the curatorial course in graduate school, I developed and implemented the research exhibition "Gender / scissors / paper", which I also repeated in a mobile format and "rode" with her in Moscow and other cities. Later, there were various group projects. And in 2023, due to my passion for family memory and textiles, a personal exhibition was organized — "Reconstruction of Memory: Embroidering a family archive."

In recent artistic experiments, I have focused my attention not only on childhood, as the main category of my research, but also on memories, personal archives, family stories, and loss. My favorite materials are wood, textiles and paper. I use embroidery, applique, tufting, wood carving and painting in my artistic practice. Recently, I’ve become interested in alternative photo processes, whether it’s pinhole or cyanotype.