Untitled

Kristina Pashkova explores the complex interactions between ancient crafts, such as weaving and embroidery, and advanced computer technologies. In her practice handwork and cybervisuality intertwine, creating a space for reexamining the role of art in the digital era. Untitled is an experiment in the “materialization” of digital culture. The fabric pages are embroidered and printed with hyperlinks to a range of sources: philosophical texts, Wikipedia, social media, weather forecasts, recipes. However, the hyperlinks cannot be used. The embroidery turns them into a chaotic, endless pattern that completely neutralizes their utilitarian communicative function, leaving only a graphic and decorative shell.

This project is a consideration of the nature of information, its accessibility and ephemerality. The artist investigates the mechanisms of passing on information, transforming familiar digital markers into an alogical and absurd physical format in which technologies and the archaic collide paradoxically, creating a destructive artistic statement devoid of functionality and meaning.