From August 15 to 20, Jardins d’Étretat will host Ural-born artist Alisa Gorshenina (Alice Hualice). During this time, visitors will have the unique opportunity to discover her textile sculptures integrated into the Gardens’ landscape.

Gorshenina's practice spans a variety of media, including found objects, oil paint, pieces of fabric, and her own body. She often literally becomes a part of her works, interacting deeply with her environment and allowing her creations to step outside the traditional confines of studios, museums, and galleries.

"My artistic world is made up of blood vessels, stars, tears, abandoned isbas, the Ural mountains and forests, carved window frames, personal myths, tired women, and many more images, states, symbols, phenomena, and my own transformations within it all," says Hualice.

During her stay at Jardins d’Etretat, she will be working on a series of drawings, photographs, and videos.

Artist’s Bio:

Alisa Gorshenina was born in the Ural village of Yakshina in 1994 and has lived in Nizhny Tagil since 2000. She graduated from the Russian State University for the Humanities in 2016 and was a member of the Tagil art group Second Hand from 2013 to 2016. Her first solo exhibition, Ural Coma, was held in 2015 in Nizhny Tagil, exploring her relationship with her environment.

In 2017, she participated in the First Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art at the Garage Museum, which showcased artists from various Russian regions. Her solo exhibition Ural Skin was held in 2018 at one of the VDNKh pavilions. That same year, she participated in the Sondre Green residency in Norway, focusing on textile art. In 2019, she received a grant from the Garage Museum.

Alice made her theater debut in 2020 with the Provincial Dance Theater in The Adventures of the Shoemaker Peter, in which she played herself. In 2021, she was longlisted for the Kandinsky Prize and the Sergei Kuryokhin Prize. She also participated in the First Komi Biennale in Syktyvkar and in a residency at ARKA, Arkhangelsk Center for Contemporary Art 

In 2022, she opened a major solo exhibition, The Scarecrow Stood in the Center of the Plowed Field, at the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg, later exhibiting the project in Ufa at the ZAMAN Center.

In 2023, her solo exhibition The Gardener was hosted in Rome at the Spazio GOMMA gallery, followed by Echo in 2024 at the Knut Hamsun Center in Bodo, Norway. Her exhibitions have traveled to over a dozen cities, including Bodo, Kyiv, Rome, Krasnodar, Moscow, Paris, Perm, New York, Yekaterinburg, Bordeaux, Nizhny Novgorod, Los Angeles, Syktyvkar, and London.

Her works have found their way into the collections of the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of the Komi Republic, the Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts, the Ruarts Foundation, and various private collections.