Intrusive Thoughts - Alya Atakhanova
Why are your works so dark? It is perhaps my number one asked question about my art. I’m trying to turn human brains inside out and portray things that are usually invisible to the naked eye. Scary things, painful things, lonely things, digusting things.
Bio: Alya Atakhanova is a Russian living in Tasmania who works mainly in ceramics. She studied Visual Arts at TAFE for a year. Presently she hopes to continue her studies at UTAS to study sculpture. A principal theme of Alya’s work is mental health and the human body. Eroguro (erotic gore) also pays a big part of her inspiration. Clay is elastic and malleable, sometimes it’s stubborn and floppy. It can be both hard and fragile. She finds it a perfect reflection of people, society and the human mind. Her works are graphic and intense, exposing human nature and the psyche inside out without any reservations .
Why are your works so dark? It is perhaps my number one asked question about my art. I’m trying to turn human brains inside out and portray things that are usually invisible to the naked eye. Scary things, painful things, lonely things, digusting things.
Bio: Alya Atakhanova is a Russian living in Tasmania who works mainly in ceramics. She studied Visual Arts at TAFE for a year. Presently she hopes to continue her studies at UTAS to study sculpture. A principal theme of Alya’s work is mental health and the human body. Eroguro (erotic gore) also pays a big part of her inspiration. Clay is elastic and malleable, sometimes it’s stubborn and floppy. It can be both hard and fragile. She finds it a perfect reflection of people, society and the human mind. Her works are graphic and intense, exposing human nature and the psyche inside out without any reservations .
Why are your works so dark? It is perhaps my number one asked question about my art. I’m trying to turn human brains inside out and portray things that are usually invisible to the naked eye. Scary things, painful things, lonely things, digusting things.
Bio: Alya Atakhanova is a Russian living in Tasmania who works mainly in ceramics. She studied Visual Arts at TAFE for a year. Presently she hopes to continue her studies at UTAS to study sculpture. A principal theme of Alya’s work is mental health and the human body. Eroguro (erotic gore) also pays a big part of her inspiration. Clay is elastic and malleable, sometimes it’s stubborn and floppy. It can be both hard and fragile. She finds it a perfect reflection of people, society and the human mind. Her works are graphic and intense, exposing human nature and the psyche inside out without any reservations .