topography of memory
Rita Salnikova is an artist originally from Siberia. She explores collage through a wide variety of materials: paint, paper, photographs, magazines, threads, plants, tar, and many others.
Her work is rooted in themes of memory, grief, and fragmented recollections, shaped by the experience of immigration and the loss of loved ones or familiar environments. Between flashbacks, melancholy, and crystallized moments, her works evoke both forgetting and the persistence of certain images.
Conceptually, her installations unfold like a dense flow of information, within which emptiness and visual silences also appear. These white spaces function as missing zones: the viewer is invited to fill these absences and to remember what has disappeared.
In this way, Rita Salnikova composes a kind of visible memory (a diary of thought), where nothing is ever entirely clear, yet everything remains vibrant.
