Anastasiia Lapteva

About the Artist

Anastasiia Lapteva (b. 2002) is an artist working with installations, hand-crafted textiles and written stories. Her encounters with people and nature, and the observations that arise from them, often form the starting point of Anastasiia’s works, which explore communication and understanding. Water and hand-woven nets recur throughout her practice as metaphors for connection and as vessels in which to preserve knowledge. 

About the artwork

The installation consists of fabrics, collages, and small stones with symbols. Through the work, I explore the connection between language, water, and the human body. I reflect on the experience of learning a new language, gathering new words and symbols, and relating them to the environment. In the work, I draw connections between gathering artefacts, like stones and flowers, from nature and gathering meanings in a new language. Fabrics with water pattern prints are placed at the front, representing the flow of language. Behind them are collages made from photographs and drawings, showing small stones with written made-up symbols. Through these elements I show how language and the environment are connected.