Anna Bogouchevskaia - Shouldn't Be Gone

Anna Bogouchevskaia (b. Moscow, 1966; lives and works in Berlin) sees her work in sculpture as a geopolitical engagement with concerns on the intersection between figuration and abstraction. Macroscopic aluminum drops, bizarre bronze flowers, fog and snow made of silver-- the artist, a committed environmentalist, has created a peculiar and fascinating world of evanescent natural phenomena. Focusing on two molecules-- carbon dioxide and water-- in their various states of aggregation, she draws attention to the threats posed by climate change. The publication Shouldn't be gone presents Bogouchevskaia's most recent works since 2019: an urgent message of warning from an artist whose sculptural oeuvre even today has the air of a monument to a world in demise.