Maria Lezhnina is an artist and architect based in Taipei. Her practice includes installation, public art, photography, and spatial research, with a particular interest in perception, landscape, and everyday forms of inhabiting space.
Born in Kazan, she has worked across different cultural and urban contexts, developing exhibitions, residencies, public art projects, and collaborative works. Her architectural background informs the way she approaches material, structure, and site, while her artistic work often focuses on atmosphere, environment, and the relationships between people and places.
She holds a Master of Arts in Urban Vision and Architectural Design from Domus Academy.
`marble is a state of matter`, artist book, 72 pages, 2019
The book collects the outcomes of an investigation of environmental dynamics developed for the Taiwan Culture Expo 2019. This investigation used the water surface as sensor. By the means of ebru painting techniques, color was left over the water for a period of time and exposed to environmental agents. The shape taken by the color is then recorded by some sort of photograms. Within the book, the resulting images are organized with text, archival images, and other pictures by the author so to form a narrative that aims to emotionally link the various scales of our material reality.
