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i'm varvara pekhota and i'm excited about things going wrong, blurriness and digital uncertainty,,,

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2026: group exhibition ‘You’ve reached the center. Please hold’, ArtEZ finals, Arnhem; group exhibition ‘Digital Alchemy’, @ Dokzaal, Amsterdam; group exhibition ‘What I did last summer’, @ Rietveld Pavilion, Amsterdam; 2025: group exhibition COMPUTALA, Leicester; window exhibition ‘[sickly{sweet}(de)composing’, @ SWSW69 Arnhem; 2024: Media Arts Festival , Arnhem; 2021: group exhibition ‘Lines of Communication’, @ Pennlab Gallery, Moscow;




primary substances

(2024)


Everything consists of and participates in interconnected complex systems; all things are synthesized and lie at the border between what was called nature and what may be called artificial.  

Plastic can be the physical expression of this blurriness. Its uncanny structure is loaded with everchanging connotations ranging from futuristic, to kitsch, to the dreadful vastness of the oil industry - and forth.

A plastic toy dinosaur may or may not be made from a regular dinosaur. A wall is made from the same calcium as the egg laying next to it. Maybe a part of this dinosaur has already seen that plastic patch of grass...