Combining a fluency in the vernacular of post-Internet culture with a sustained attention to the traditions of figurative painting, Aleksandra Eliseeva works across painting, sculpture, and digital media to build images that feel both immediate and estranged. Drawing on the visual grammar of video games, advertising, and memes, she constructs scenes where tactile, "real-world" presence collides with the logic of screens—icons, cursors, prompts, and glitches. In these works, the canvas functions less as a depiction of reality than as a reconstruction of its interface: a space where meaning loops, control slips, and emotion seems to arrive late.
Rather than placing the human figure at the center, Eliseeva frequently turns to animals as carriers of instinct and unfiltered response. Set against saturated, synthetic environments, these figures encounter fragments of digital architecture and mass-cultural symbols that operate as subtle pressure points—signals of a system that organizes attention while eroding intimacy. The resulting imagery is poised between irony and unease, proposing a contemporary condition in which perception is continuously shaped by patterns outside one’s agency, and "error" becomes a legible form of truth.
Eliseeva’s work has been exhibited at the New Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the Erarta Museum (St. Petersburg), and Marina Bay Sands (Singapore), and presented in international exhibitions in Germany and England. She has participated in the Art Russia fair (2023−2025) and has contributed to curatorial and interdisciplinary projects. Since 2025, she has worked under the mentorship of artist Dmitry Strizhov, developing his painterly school into a distinct authorial language.