Suspended Intuition
By Lisa Knoll
20/1/2023
Exhibition Details:
Larisa Razumeichenko.
Atticus Gallery,
11a Queen Street, BA1 1HE, Bath, United Kingdom.
17 January – 22 February 2023
Image © Atticus Gallery
Atticus Gallery is pleased to present Suspended Intuition, a solo exhibition by Russian-born sculptor Larisa Razumeichenko, featuring a new body of work developed between 2021 and 2023. The exhibition brings together nine meticulously composed sculptures in stained birch, corten steel, aluminium, graphite pigment, and resin—materials approached not as fixed forms but as active agents of memory, tension, and spatial resonance.
Curated around a single architectural and conceptual zone titled Threshold, the exhibition invites viewers into a measured encounter with objects that hover between presence and evasion. Razumeichenko’s practice engages with the perceptual ambiguities between solidity and void, weight and lift, stillness and becoming. Her forms resist monumentality in favour of what she describes as “delayed gestures”—sculptural moments suspended in a state of contemplative tension.
Among the featured works:
Untitled (Helix Tension) presents a dark granite column pierced by an incomplete steel ring, suggesting rupture and orbital stillness.
Fold Within Light anchors the exhibition—a marble slab folded inward by a curving blackened plane, undercut by a lacquered steel element that tests the relationship between surface gloss and mass.
Vessel of Return, a quiet study in containment and growth, encloses a weathered birch core and living plant forms within a spiralling steel framework, drawing attention to cycles of silence, permeability, and regeneration.
These sculptural propositions are not declarations but instruments of perception. As the artist notes, “Sculpture should not conclude, but open.” The works invite slowness, asking to be moved around, absorbed, and felt—resisting immediate legibility in favour of spatial sensitivity.
An accompanying limited-edition catalogue will be available, featuring new critical writing including:
Dr Ewa Wójtowicz (Poznań University of Arts): Geometry and Memory in Contemporary Sculpture
About the Artist
Larisa Razumeichenko (b. 1987, Volgograd) lives and works between Saint Petersburg and rural Pskov. A graduate of the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz Academy of Art and Design (2009–2015). Her sculptural practice is marked by spatial contradiction, material sensitivity, and an insistence on open form—work that resists the monumental in favour of the intimate and meditative.
This exhibition has been made possible with the generous support of Eastside Projects, Birmingham.
For further information, images, or press enquiries, please contact:
info@atticusgallery.co.uk
or visit www.atticusgallery.co.uk