Yuliya Lanina
Still from Never and Both, 2020, stop motion animation
Describe your artistic style in three words.
Multimedia collaborations
What's inspiring you right now?
Personal and collective anxiety. It is both inspiring and hindering.
What do you do when you're feeling uninspired?
I organize and clean up.
Tell us something unique about your process.
My work is rooted in the traditional medium of painting which I turn into a multi-dimensional and immersive experience for the viewer, creating multimedia installations, performances, animations, and mechanized sculpture. My images and stories are inspired by the Surrealist and Dada approach, with the subconscious taking the lead, leaving analytical thinking behind and embracing the nonsensical and surprising.
What advice do you have for other artists?
Take care of yourself and others and keep working.
Anything else you'd like to share?
Being a working parent with children at home continues to be challenging.
Yuliya Lanina is a Russian-born multimedia artist, whose works exist at the intersection of visual, performing arts, and technological innovation, and explore social issues like gender perception, sexuality, trauma, and motherhood.
Lanina's honors include Fulbright (Vienna, Austria), Headlands Art Center (CA), Yaddo (NY), and The Puffin Foundation (NJ)