Alexandra Shatalova

Alexandra Shatalova’s focus is in exploring the sacrilege of a gendered womb. The womb is her tool to create, inquire and investigate the secrets of life. She aligns her intuition with research based realities, in a practice that combines photographs, images, objects and experimental film production. In a mode of remembrance, she conserves the precious knowledge stemming from our ancestors. At the same time, she showcases the extremities of the internal transformation of our contemporary world. Indeed, Alexandra Shatalova is the manifestation of a new age womb–awakening. 

Although the pilgrimage of the womb–awakening is based on scientific findings, it is a very mysterious and personal artform that often drifts between surreal and chaotic moments. Working through historical and religious undertones that often seem intangibly hard to believe, and irrational within contemporary society, she sources energy and creativity in what others just regard as the female reproductive system. As people have lost touch with their wombs, society has moved away from a holy state of embodied feminine consciousness.

One example, is the remembrance of womb mystery schools that in ancient times fostered a balance between the masculine and feminine. Moving between the human and animalistic crossroads (sometimes co-opted by fish, eggs and swine), women were taught from an early age to treasure their precious wombs, to honor their red days, to build upon their womb powers, and to heal themselves and the loved ones around them. Alexandra Shatalova restores exactly these learnings, creating a bridge between worlds that celebrates the source of life.