Alina Kugush, born in 1994, lives and works in St Petersburg. Received her education at the School for Young Artists (Pro Arte Foundation, Saint Petersburg, 2020), Herzen University, Department of Fine Arts (2012), Repin State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Faculty of Graphics (2014). Alina Kugush’s work explores the ways in which errors and failures affect global systems, as well as transitional states from one world to another (“Diana” and “The Force Field”). Projects about fragility and vulnerability find their form in different media. The artist feels at ease between performance, installation, video, graphics, painting and make-up practice, sometimes merging these into a single collage or event. The main working tools of Alina Kugush are metaphor, wordplay or visual banter.