Pkok curated art

Meet Maria Pleshkova,  a Russian multidisciplinary artist whose practice weaves together photography, video, and writing into intimate explorations of self and psyche. 

Though formally trained in law at Moscow State University, her path quickly turned to the arts, where she found her true voice. With further studies in photojournalism and short film, her vision was shaped by workshops and residencies across Europe and the United States, continually enriched by cinema, literature, and philosophy.

Delve into this thread to find out more about Maria’s fascinating art world.
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Her work has been widely exhibited across continents—from Paris and Prague to São Paulo and Seoul—earning a place in major institutional and private collections. Among them: the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow), Manege Central Exhibition Hall (St. Petersburg), and the Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum. 

Her practice blends raw emotion with conceptual depth, inviting audiences into an inner universe that is as poetic as it is unsettling.
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Deeply autobiographical, Pleshkova’s art uses her own body and life as material. She embraces staged self-portraiture not for spectacle, but as a means to question identity, vulnerability, and transformation. 

Her works often expose fragility with disarming honesty, pushing beyond traditional notions of the female form and gaze to create spaces of empathy and introspection.
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For Pleshkova, art becomes a spiritual and philosophical exercise—a means of reconciling the visible and invisible realms. She explores inner darkness with the same tenderness as light, drawing on archetypes, memory, and metaphor to craft visual narratives that resonate beyond surface. Her subjects reflect the microcosmic—the quiet storms within us—rendered with lyrical force.
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