Tumbleweed Cooperative, Barcelona
2024

The found table and plastic tablecloths serve as a starting point for reflecting on transformation. In project, design—initially aimed at functionality—becomes a tool for exploring the boundaries between objects, time and space. What happens when an object loses its function but retains its external attributes? It becomes a carrier of new meanings, reflecting hybridity and the transition from the familiar to the associative, where functionality gives way to free interpretation.
The artist focuses on the emergence of a new hallucinatory reality, its origins linked to the active role of AI in content creation. Visual ornamentation takes precedence over materiality. In such a "garden," objects lose their originality—and the need for it altogether.
Please check out the text written for this exhibition by Tumbleweed Cooperative co-founder Maria Pugina:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mmgz7TRRDzOlZRwBIVl2yy9LnY27rt3CJNWUcnqN4lI/edit?usp=sharing
Here you will find the text of an interview conducted by Katya Babikova with the artist Alina Izmailova following the exhibition:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AVIVQyoWXrOZPN0kyT_SV-yOl26p4BVgpgU9dMxa8D4/edit?usp=sharing

Photo by Evgenii Garkusha.