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Rita Salnikova is an artist from Siberia whose practice centers on collage and lamination. She encases in plastic objects she finds on the street, in second-hand shops, in attics and basements of friends’ homes, during her travels, as well as flowers, photographs, product labels, and gift wrapping paper. Her choice of materials is guided by color, texture, pattern, form, and the memories or associations they evoke.

Her work is grounded in themes of memory, self-reflection, immigration, the loss of loved ones, and the search for and creation of home. She explores the cyclical nature of life and the repetition of its narratives. The works gather traces of lived moments—flashbacks, ruptures, and persistent images—where collage and lamination become a method for preserving what remains and acknowledging what fades.

Conceptually, her installations unfold as dense streams of information, in which voids and visual silences emerge. These empty spaces operate as missing zones, interruptions within the narrative structure. They materialize absence and create a field where the viewer reconstructs, through their own memory, what is no longer present.

She is currently based in Grenoble, France.

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