Natalia Menyakina • CV

My artistic practice focuses on exploring the mechanisms of perception and the structuring of psychic reality through the prism of visual redundancy.

Drawing on key concepts of psychology, I view them not only as analytical tools but as dynamic structures that shape mass consciousness.

I am interested in figurative language as a phenomenon underlying perception. Before the advent of phonetic writing, meaning was conveyed through a system of signs and symbols, where the image retained polysemy, remaining open to interpretation. In my works, visual redundancy becomes a way of modeling such a system—a language capable of resonating at an unconscious level, bypassing traditional linguistic structures.

Appropriation and work with archives constitute the methodological basis of my practice. I create new visual forms by rethinking digitized images of artistic heritage objects. Returning them to physical reality through printing, I enhance their materiality using glass bead embroidery.

In this process, the combination of modern technologies with traditional handmade techniques is important to me, allowing me to explore questions of the preservation and loss of materiality in the digital age.