Ir:ca Solza, an artist, researcher, art critic based in Bishkek, Kyrgystan. Feminist and queer, pronouns: he\they.
As an artist I create complex installations, art objects, poetic and textual works, art books, video art and performances. My practice revolves around themes such as fluidity and resistance, queer experience, religious concepts outside the context of the religious canon (miracle, martyrdom), liberation practices, anarchic virtual communities and spaces, criticism of totalitarian political reality, institutional criticism and research into the boundaries of censorship, the creation of a Kafkaesque non-existent people and a choir of dubious voices, and the feminist study of the human body as the boundaries of the individual and public.
Virtual exhibitions & VR landscapes
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Featured projects
False Vacuum Witnesses
A queer activist, artistic, and research project including selfpublishing and interventions. 2024-present.
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Bureaucracy of Miracles
A multimedia bureaucratic horror project, 2014-2023.
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Culture as an Instrument of war
Virtual panorama presenting a large study on how Russian cultural institutions are involved in pro-war propaganda. 2022-2023.
Frogs and Wasps
Installations, a series of videos and graphic works, 2022-2023.
The Miracle Bureau
An interactive work that invites viewers to vote for miracles, 2022-2023.
21 Roses
Installation, 200x200x150. 2022
Martyrs
Installation, 300х240х160, mixed media, poetry. ?-2022.
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PENA
Anonymous virtual space, an endless labyrinth with works by various authors, 2021-2022.
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Hellin’s Square
Virtual panorama, 2021.
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Everything dissolves in the air
Heavenly Supplement to the Catalog of Simple Machines. Virtual panorama, 2021.
Catalogue of simple machines
A three-act catalogue of machines with poetic descriptions. Installations changing through time, interactive objects, texts. 2013-2019.
