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Rita Salnikova is a collage artist originally from Siberia, now based in France. Through collage, photography and installation, she creates layered compositions from found objects, personal photographs and everyday materials.

Growing up in a small Siberian village, Salnikova developed a deep attentiveness to the world around her. Long before photography became part of her practice, she filled notebooks with observations and created her first collages in the attic of her family home using magazine cuttings and found materials. This curiosity remains at the core of her artistic practice today.

After studying photography and creative methodologies in Moscow, Salnikova developed a practice centered on collage and lamination. She collects photographs, textures, architectural details, flowers, packaging, labels, fabrics and found objects during her walks and travels. Rather than preserving them as memories, she brings them into new relationships, allowing new meanings to emerge through their juxtaposition.

Most of her projects take the form of series. Each collage is conceived as an autonomous work while simultaneously belonging to a broader visual system, where every piece reshapes the reading of the others. Her work is driven by observation, collecting and the search for invisible connections between people, places and everyday objects.

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