Irina Lotarevich

Irina Lotarevich investigates the intersection of personal experience with broader social systems. She works with materials such as wood, metal, and cast elements, combining high-grade and devalued materials while employing precise fabrication methods to construct spatial narratives. Her minimal yet intricate forms reference architecture, bureaucracy, labor, language, and aspects of the human body, reflecting on the production and circulation conditions of the materials themselves. Her practice often integrates language and textual elements, weaving writing into sculptural compositions. By arranging industrial materials like aluminum and door locks into modular or grid-like structures, she evokes domestic and architectural forms while exploring the tensions and barriers inherent in social systems. Functional objects are transformed into symbols, representing limitations, access, and control within contemporary environments. Through this approach, Lotarevich engages with themes of restriction, personal agency, and societal structure. Her works encourage viewers to reflect on the invisible frameworks shaping everyday life, creating a dialogue between the material, the body, and the socio-political context in which they exist. ...