Artist Statement
My work is about creating my own world, a universe at the entrance to which the human being is deconstructed into material and immaterial, real and virtual. I act as a translator, converting the complex language of human existence into a visual lexicon.
Robots, people, dolls, energy, machines, souls, brain, body, nostalgia, emotionality, armor, spacesuit, society, beings, reality.
Universe.
By taking it all apart, by mixing it up, by swapping parts of the same whole, I find new visual synonyms and metaphors. Under the prism of profound similarity or the prism of perfect difference, one gets a better look at the objects, and then a better look at oneself.
Stopping. My world is a kind of stop for the repair of the inner world — a space for pause and translation.
About
No Sam (b. 1999, Moscow) is a visual artist working at the intersection of the real and virtual.
Sam began as a musician (graduating from music college in 2018) before abandoning her career as a flutist to seek new modes of expression. Her work as an art director for both a music label and in the gaming industry shaped her multidisciplinary approach, spanning traditional painting and sculpture to digital design, 3D modeling and animation.
Her practice involves deconstructing familiar forms through art’s lens: blending the human and mechanical, the material and unmaterial, the personal and universal.
“My work creates a world where people are taking a breath, falling apart and reassembling anew. Art is the only language capable of describing this process. It doesn’t provide answers — it compels us to ask questions.”