Alexandra Sukhareva Untitled, 2022 Chlorine on raw canvas
200 x 150 cm
78 3/4 x 59 1/8 inches

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In 2010, Sukhareva began experimenting with inorganic chemicals, working on large canvases burned with chlorine — a powerful disinfectant that also formed the basis of chemical weapons during World War I.

This highly toxic substance produces a reverse painterly effect: it carves, scours, and cleans the surface rather than adding new layers. She then introduces cut-out fragments of canvas and applied elements to the vector-like traces left by corrosion. Emerging from collaborative workshops with friends and family, these works bring together materials, memories, and gestures into associative compositions — “records” of both daytime and nocturnal visions.

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