Kirill Savchenkov, born in 1987 in Moscow, currently lives and works in France. He works with various media including mediated sculpture, installation, performance, and sound. His artistic practice raises the questions of agency, identity and autocracy in the tech-social milieu. He was nominated to represent Russia in the national pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennial in 2022 but withdrew from the project in protest over the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Over the years, his works have been presented in institutions such as Transart Festival, Italy, 2022; 14th Baltic Triennial, Lithuania, 2021; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Russia, 2021; V-A-C Zattere, Italy, 2019; 12th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, 2018.
His project The Solar Snow focus on the analysis of manipulative dictatorship and oppression based on informational manipulation and the production of uncertainty in multiple dimensions. After the beginning of the full-scale Russo-Ukrainian war that put together colonialism, resentment and informational autocracy, into a deadly potion, the mechanics of control got entangled with recursiveness and violence in the necropolitical state. Kirill Savchenkov will focus on the notions of agency and failed political resistance in this political context. The result of the residency will be a transmedial work based on the archeology of social and sonic media, personal observations, and collaboration with social science scholars.