Irina Patrusheva (b. 1996, Russia) is based in Russia. She graduated in 2018 from Saint Petersburg Mining University with a Bachelor’s degree in Technology of Artistic Material Processing. Patrusheva’s painting practice stems from a desire to preserve fleeting moments of the everyday and to explore the sublime they may contain. Working primarily in oil painting, she creates personal narratives charged with emotional intensity and delicate perception - a gaze toward the unattainable, whether it manifests in the gleam of reflective objects or in the transience of tender emotions.
Grounded in the tradition of realism, her canvases often revolve around themes of sensation, memory, femininity, and desire. Deeply influenced by early cinema and moving images, she draws inspiration from vast digital archives, including film stills, found footage, and photographic material. Yet these images are never fully reproduced; instead, they are cropped, reassembled, and reconstructed in ways that are ambiguous and open-ended, leaving room for viewers to generate their own narratives and emotional projections. Positioned between intimate memory and mediated imagery, Patrusheva’s work reveals the subtle threshold between the “visible” and the “sensible.” She seeks to establish an emotional resonance with her audience, evoking moments of experience that hover between reality and imagination.