Vlada Soshkina is a visual artist and illustrator currently based between Paris and New York.
In recent years, she has been increasingly focused on developing her artistic practice, exploring themes of memory, belonging, displacement, and the relationship between people and places.
After moving across countries and continents, merging and letting go of different landscapes, Vlada began observing how each place we have lived in continues to occupy a space within us — and how we leave a part of ourselves behind in the places we once called home. Her work explores how we get lost, how we grow roots, and how these experiences gradually form a kind of inner geography.
In her upcoming work, Vlada is interested in bringing her textile practice into dialogue with public art, exploring how principles of textile collage can be translated into larger-scale, site-specific projects. Working with textiles mirrors the way memory is formed: fragments, traces, and separate elements come together to create a new whole.
Her inspiration often comes from unexpected forms of raw beauty — discovered while travelling to remote places or simply walking the streets of Paris with her dogs. She is drawn to naive art, traditional crafts, vernacular aesthetics, and the ways these visual languages can be reinterpreted within a contemporary artistic practice.
