Nikita Russi is a Swiss artist who is known for her sprawling works that transform traditional white cube spaces into absorbing environments tackling issues of philosophy, psychology and consumerism. She often engages the viewer through superabundance.
Combining digital media, sculpture and painting, she props and layers materials in a fashion that correlates to the intellectual scavenging and sensory overload designed to simulate our own process of grappling with the excess of information in daily life.
Using latex, paint, casting, metal and glue, Russi’s artworks engage with issues of power and powerlessness, subjective and objective perception, and moral responsibility.
Russi’s sculptural constructions and paintings are known for transporting knowledge and information by alienating the usual means of display and skewing our perspective on things. To achieve this, Russi frequently prefers to use everyday materials that are nonetheless symbolically charged.
Russi’s spatial assemblages are skilful adaptations of wild associative systems whose energies are intended to inspire thought. The results of her works are visual compositions where the beholder has to engage with signs, symbols, and memories, and which change our perspective on the possibilities of art and life.