b.1991 Tomsk, Russia
Anastassia Tretiakova is a Russian-American artist currently based in Spain. Her work deals primarily with autobiographical subjects such as familial intimacy and lack thereof, the concept of home and familial relationships. Her work explores her dualistic identity, belonging to polarizing countries, and her life experience of immigration and displacement - exploring rootlessness and the idea of home (space and place).
She explores memory through the photographic medium and bookmaking, using film as a way to memory proof her experiences and relying on family archive material to piece together childhood memories that are inaccessible otherwise. Her work is highly impressionistic, nostalgic - capturing fleeting moments of experience with her family and in her daily life. She focuses on interpretation of space as a mode of moving and photographing the world around her from her previous experience as a dancer - this interpretation is then translated into how place shapes identity and questions the possibility of finding home in foreign places.