Impact, 2023, copper, hay net, Wilson Impact volley ball, 180 x 111 x 51 cm (copper cage) (Courtesy the Artist and Ciaccia Levi, Paris-Milan)

Alina Chaiderov Impact

Focus, April 18, 2023 May 02, 2023

In her work Alina Chaiderov delves into the relationship between private and collective memory. Her sculptures are fixed within a conceptual tradition and assert an unequivocal material presence. Drawing on the artist’s own memories she highlights - through the prism of her self-revelation – a wider historical, social and cultural background. Through displacements and movements in sculptural compositions, she addresses themes such as materia, time, body and space.

In Impact, a copper cage frames a volleyball enclosed in a bright red hay net hanging from the ceiling. The parallel lines and the polished surface of the metal structure contrast with the pregnant body of the sack, whose suspension emphasises the verticality of the space, using movement and immobility as primary counterpoints.

Chaiderov often returns to materials that bare ambiguous significance. Here the prominent element indicates athletics and physicality, while simultaneously alluding to a psychological story of protection and boundaries.

Alina Chaiderov (Leningrad, Russia, 1984) lives and works in Gothenburg and Stockholm, Sweden.
She received a BA of Fine Arts at Valand Academy, Gothenburg in 2015. Later this year she has an upcoming solo exhibition at Aranya Art Centre, China. Recent solo exhibitions include Ark, Ciaccia Levi, Milano (2023), Mending a broken world, Sörmlands Museum (2018) and A New Memory is Made, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivolo - Turin (2016). She has also participated in various group exhibitions including Eclettica!, Museo Ettore Fico, Turin (2022), Udden skulptur, Hunnebostrand (2022), Nouvel accrochage de la collection, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Sant-Étienne Métropole (2021), Recyclage/Surcyclage, Foundation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (2020), Fragmented Realities, Göteborgs Konsthall (2019) and Snittet, Borås Konstmuseum (2018). In 2015 she received the illy Present Future Prize.