Alexander is a Russian artist who's made a spot in the modern street art scene for dolls. He integrates them into the buildings of Saint Petersburg, sparking unique responses from the people who happen upon them.
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00:00There is freedom in a doll that is not present in a human being.
00:09I love their plasticity in dolls.
00:16It can be disproportionate, it can have eight legs and two eyes, and it won't surprise anyone.
00:23My task as a master is to make a vessel of such a convenient shape, so that as many options for interpretation as possible fit in it.
00:35I make dolls since I was a child. I spent all my childhood with a plasticine box.
00:55My parents, for example, were surprised and embarrassed that I was making dolls, and my father said that my childhood would pass and I would have nothing to remember.
01:14I became very professional when I moved to St. Petersburg 10 years ago.
01:25There are different technologies in dolls, and they all have their own peculiarities and difficulties.
01:32Now I mostly work with porcelain.
01:34This layer of modern culture, street art, turned out to be completely unpossessed by dolls.
02:04I always choose buildings that are already falling apart from time to time.
02:15I look for places where there is an atmosphere, and often the atmosphere tells me which character should appear here.
02:28Destruction has its own beauty.
02:35Everyone sees their own in this.
02:43Someone sees something similar to Buddhist mandalas, which are created for a long time, and then at one moment they are destroyed.
02:54Someone sees flowers that have grown through the building, someone sees holes, black holes.
03:15There are a lot of interpretations, and they are all cool.