WORKROOM 2024 Resident Artist Spotlight: Asya Dubrovina

Asya Dubrovina (b. 1988 St. Petersburg Russia) is an artist and filmmaker who received her BA at Keene State College with a concentration of Visual Studies and Moving Image and her MFA in Moving Image from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She currently teaches multidisciplinary arts and film courses at School of the Art Institute of Chicago and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. As a CAPE teaching artist, Asya has taught in the after school program at Waters Elementary and Telpochcalli School.

Asya’s nonfiction films investigate poetics and the boundaries between the personal and the political. Her interests lie in how places carry memory, sound as an experience and the materiality of film. Using single channel film and 16 mm installation, her work engages the viewer sensorially. Her work has shown at SEFF at Binghamton University, NY, Co-Prosperity, ACRE and Gallery 400 in Chicago, IL. 

During WORKROOM, Asya will research topics of lines, signals, and language in exploration of dissonance and gaps in communication. “In physical spaces,” Asya writes, “I have been observing how humans behave socially with the use of lines. I want to observe how road lines are used in Chicago and create a project with lines whether as an installation or as a workshop/conversation in a group.”“Inspired by the exhibition C’mon Language by Anna Craycroft, I seek to merge video and drawing together as a way to learn and translate language visually.” Also drawing inspiration from visual artist Alison O’Daniel’s use of sound, Asya looks forward to aurally expanding her films.

Below are various still from Asya’s video works: