Sandra Koretskaya

Born on may 3, 1984 (Taganrog, Rostov region, Russia)
Graphic artist
She studied at the Kharkiv Academy of Design and Art (former. Hudprom) (2004-2009),​ Rostov art school named after M. B. Grekov (1998-2003).

From 2009 to 2020, she taught graphic design at the Department of Engineering graphics and Design of the Taganrog Technological Institute of SFU (former. TRTU)
She held three solo exhibitions at the Taganrog Art Museum, in 1999, 2009 and 2014

Three times participated in exhibitions which was organized by M. Shemyakin's foundation.
Since 2010, member of the Union of Artists of Russia.
Currently lives and works in Moscow.


Portfolio:

Series "Faith. Hope. Love". Dedicated to people who are fighting cancer or any other deadly disease...

On August 28, 2017, after 10 years of fighting cancer, the person to whom I owe a lot — my Mother-left. 10 years that accomodated a whole life for me
With a series consisting of 12 graphic works + 1 installation, I want, first of all, to share with the audience emotions — those that cannot be fully expressed in words, which I have experienced in this short life...
I want to show transformation of the personality under disease pressure... Idea: through the prism of images of graphic works to show my personal experience of life with a loved one with a terrible diagnosis... support other people who are experiencing or have experienced similar experiences.

Eternity, 2020, cardboard, pastel charcoal, 40x60 “Eternity, 2020, cardboard, pastel charcoal, 40x60”

The agony of a person's transition to another world

Remission, 2020, cardboard, pastel charcoal, collage. 70X80 “Remission, 2020, cardboard, pastel charcoal, collage. 70X80”

Forgiveness in a person for pain and suffering, disintegrating like a glass figure that lasts from three months to... until eternity, the Disease is depicted as a hungry wolf-dog, fairly crippled but still ready for its last fatal bite, the man is almost fused with this beast, he is used to it, tries to propitiate it, so that it took pity and retreated, but the wolf does not know pity, he watches menacingly as a man like a porcelain figure, from each intervention of doctors, falls into an increasing number of fragments. The falling apart brickwork symbolizes the external life of a person, it still tries to keep the same forms but it is more difficult to succeed, the blue glow of eternity is more clearly visible through the Windows, more and more the room turns into a grave. The dropper hanging over the intertwined figures is liters of drugs that weaken the beast while destroying the human body, changing its life beyond recognition. The translucent faces of the people at the top of the work, gone and waiting for a new soul, watch the struggle with one eye