Kristina Rozhkova
Russia
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Kristina Rozhkova
Kristina Rozhkova’s photographic universe is a hyperreal dreamscape where contradictions coexist: playfulness and cruelty, tenderness and power, eroticism and innocence. Her practice reclaims the visual territory of girlhood, a phase often aestheticized or misrepresented, and reframes it through her own lens of lived experience and philosophical inquiry. With a sharp, sometimes surreal gaze, Rozhkova orchestrates scenes that invite the viewer to confront their preconceptions about identity and representation. Each image functions as a fragment of a broader psychological landscape—a confrontation with the self through the body of the other. Her work resonates like a visual diary torn between memory and fiction, rawness and precision.
Vanessa Rusci,
curator of the magazine
Project
The Poetics of Tension
This presentation brings together a selection of works from Kristina Rozhkova's key photographic projects, including Dacha (2020), The Bliss of Girlhood (2021), and Deep Latch (2020–2023). The images chart a journey through staged intimacy, unsettling domesticity, and the transient beauty of youth. In Dacha, Rozhkova approaches the mythical world of Russian country life—a space she never truly inhabited—with a mix of nostalgia and critical distance, constructing memories she never lived. In The Bliss of Girlhood, she sanctifies the gestures and gazes of her young subjects, capturing the liminal moment between childhood and adulthood as a site of emotional and symbolic complexity. With Deep Latch, her focus shifts to the raw materiality of bodies and objects, pushing the boundaries of visibility and discomfort.
Together, these works articulate Rozhkova’s ongoing fascination with the relationship between corporeality, emotional memory, and aesthetic form. Whether evoking the grotesque, the delicate, or the absurd, her images demand attention and elicit layered emotional responses. In their vivid juxtapositions and embodied metaphors, they offer a vision of the world that is both deeply personal and universally resonant.
Artist statement
I like to think of the body metaphorically, as a signifier and as an object in space. I enjoy exploring its plasticity and physical limits, and capturing its movement in still images. My goal is to transmit sensory experience—to provoke reactions of discomfort, attraction, and even disgust. I play with contrasts: tenderness and aggression, fragility and dominance. The fragile, crystal-clear world of girlhood is, for me, a realm where sexuality and power collide. My subjects are not merely characters but conduits for my own emotional states. Through them, I aim to reveal the kaleidoscopic turbulence of lived experience.