{"id":65020,"date":"2018-05-04T18:28:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T16:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=65020"},"modified":"2018-05-04T18:28:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T16:28:39","slug":"alice-hualice-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/alice-hualice-instagram\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russian Artist Serving Up Surrealism on Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65047\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/30078879_527129174348220_3016465057941815296_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"776\" \/><br \/>\nEvery now and then, while mindlessly scrolling through your Instagram feed to fill time between train stops, an image will shake you from your commuter daydreams. Sometimes it\u2019s an excellent throwback \u2014 that time when Bj\u00f6rk and PJ Harvey took part in a &#8217;90s photoshoot together \u2014 but better still is the excitement of discovering a new artist, especially one whose work you would likely never stumble across in your day-to-day existence. Enter: Alice Hualice, a 23-year-old Russian artist based in Nizhny Tagil \u2014 a small industrial city in Russia\u2019s mountainous Sverdlovsk Oblast region. Hualice\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alicehualice\/\">Instagram account<\/a> is a universe unto itself, filled with beguiling imagery in a distinctly surrealist vernacular.<br \/>\nHualice&#8217;s work weaves handmade creations into the patchwork of her everyday life. Hand-sewn dolls \u2014 crafted from natural fabrics,\u00a0with lumpy, naive features \u2014 crop up against woodland backdrops, or sit alongside Hualice and her friends in dimly lit interiors. The artist regularly dons a variety of masks \u2014 some mirroring the faces of the dolls, others reminiscent of Jean Cocteau\u2019s memorable collaboration with Elsa Schiaparelli, produced in tulle and bearing surrealist attributes, in lace, beading or embroidery. Ceramic breasts, and outfits adorned with intricately rendered anatomical detailing are also trademark features of Hualice\u2019s artfully sculpted world.<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BWh0b_oBW8A\/?taken-by=alicehualice<br \/>\nThere is a childlike escapism to her oeuvre, tinged with an unsettling quality that\u2019s hard to define. \u201cI like to talk about my fears, about some kind of childhood trauma, internal pain,\u201d the artist tells SLEEK candidly. \u201cWhen I express this through my work, then I cleanse my body of the bad. I also like the theme of corporeality, the fragility of the human body.\u201d<br \/>\nThese poignant, deeply personal undertones, as well as Hualice&#8217;s organic use of textiles, is evocative of the work of Louise Bourgeois \u2014 an artist she much admires. \u201cWhen I started to engage in textile arts, I became interested in who else had worked in the medium. It was then that I found out about Louise Bourgeois. Her story is a bit like mine, which is why I think I was so attracted to her work.\u201d<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BUKlM7whnFD\/?taken-by=alicehualice<br \/>\nMuch like Bourgeois, however, it is from her own life that Hualice draws most of her inspiration. \u201cMy works and I have always been inextricably together,\u201d she reflects. \u201cI believe that\u2019s the only way I can be sincere. I immerse the work in my life and myself into the work as much as possible.\u201d She means this literally as well as metaphorically; from a photograph of the artist leaning from a cottage window in a folkloric mask to a snapshot of her standing in a sun-kissed field, a collaged figure in one of her masks looming above her menacingly, Hualice herself is a constant presence. It is for this reason, the artist explains, that the female body appears so frequently in her work, rather than any overarching feminist agenda.<br \/>\nHer hometown also has a marked impact on her output: \u201cI love working with the place I live in,&#8221; she says. &#8220;We are very unusual here. The city is quite industrial, but there are a lot of fields and mountains surrounding it and you walk for 10 minutes, you will be in the forest. This contrast is very inspiring.\u201d<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BeNNHKRhbPa\/?taken-by=alicehualice<br \/>\nBut living in such a remote region could easily have its downfalls, offering artists little opportunity to show their work. Which is why Instagram has proved such a blessing. \u201cThis is my personal gallery, where I can show everything the way I want to,\u201d Hualice enthuses. \u201cI\u2019ve been making art for six years and I joined Instagram in 2014. There is always an audience here. Many people have learned about me through Instagram.\u201d One such person is Russian designer Roma Uvarov, who invited Hualice to collaborate on his Spring\/Summer 2018 collection, which featured garments bearing the artist\u2019s signature anatomical detailing. \u201cI like that from my small Russian town, I can show my works to the whole world without leaving home,\u201d Hualice says happily. 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