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Irina Lotarevich works with hard, cold metal – a material long read as an emblem of control, rigid permanence and patriarchal attribution. Her artistic interventions unsettle such inherited associations, transforming materiality into a site for reflection on power, the body, bureaucracy and labour. Raised in New York, the artist combines an elaborate handling of raw matter – steel, bronze, brass and aluminium, subjected to cutting, bending, welding, grinding, forging and casting – with everyday objects as objets trouvés.
Lotarevich’s minimalist sculptures extend into existing architectural structures and social narratives. They probe the ways in which bodies are inscribed into built environments, and how ideological systems take form through choices of material and construction. In a world marked by geopolitical upheaval and ecological crisis, she develops a sculptural language oscillating between froideur and fragility, between present ten…
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Irina Lotarevich works with hard, cold metal – a material long read as an emblem of control, rigid permanence and patriarchal attribution. Her artistic interventions unsettle such inherited associations, transforming materiality into a site for reflection on power, the body, bureaucracy and labour. Raised in New York, the artist combines an elaborate handling of raw matter – steel, bronze, brass and aluminium, subjected to cutting, bending, welding, grinding, forging and casting – with everyday objects as objets trouvés.
Lotarevich’s minimalist sculptures extend into existing architectural structures and social narratives. They probe the ways in which bodies are inscribed into built environments, and how ideological systems take form through choices of material and construction. In a world marked by geopolitical upheaval and ecological crisis, she develops a sculptural language oscillating between froideur and fragility, between present ten…
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