Lena Sholokhova (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan): Blinders

  • 22 August 2025 2 pm UTC
  • dur 5 min

The light and ironic video-sketch was created during the final period of lockdown, when many had enough time to rethink their lives and activities. A feminist critical statement by an artist based on real events. An unfulfilled housewife in her professional life nurtures an unconscious repressed desire – a childhood dream: to become an artist. The more she delves into household chores, merging with the interior of the apartment, which is rather mothballed, the more the repressed desire breaks through the consciousness blinkered by social stereotypes, balancing on the boundaries, causing heavy dreams that force the woman to “ground herself”. At some point, the unconscious desire became a powerful trigger for action and the woman crossed the line of blinkeredness, connecting with the real world, where she finally began to realize herself as an artist.

Curating artist, in the moment lives and works in Kyrgyzstan. She graduated from the Faculty of Contemporary Art at the HS “Sreda obuchenia” and the Moscow Anthropological School, in the workshop of Alla Mitrofanova “How to weave new materialism: Quantum ontologies”, as well as various author\’s courses on art and philosophy. She curated and participated in several group exhibitions in Moscow and international online and also in a self-organized community. Publishes texts about her artistic practice on the online platform syg.ma and writes texts on other topics on independent platforms like Aroundart.org The main theme of artistic practice is the concept of “The gap between image and reality”, which combines performative and ideomotor practices, ontopsychology and onto-epistemology with other media: painting, art objects and video. artist website