Feb 21

Feb 21 Venera Kazarova

Based in Russia, Venera Kazarova creates couture clothes for theater and contemporary choreographies with paper-cut objects, combining her love and passion for materials such as plastic utensils, polyethylene, and in particular vintage items.

Recently in a quick chat at coeval, we were elated to discover the whats and hows of her journey so far.

How did you find yourself designing and crafting? What was your first experience with creative discoveries and explorations? Please tell us about your childhood and early phases of practices.

I have been creating since I was a child and I always knew that I would be a designer. My grandmother taught me to embroider, she loved to sew and taught me everything. After she showed me how to sew for the first time, there could be nothing more interesting in life for me. and it remains so until now.

What has inspired and influenced you to choose this direction and medium? What emotions and thoughts run through your head when designing and conceptualizing?

Of course, I can say that I am inspired by beautiful things, especially flowers. But most of all, my personal worries inspire and push me to create a new one. I am constantly experiencing some emotions from what is happening around me, and these emotions and experiences are visualized in my head into images I do.

Let’s talk about the world of your creations, which embodies a surreal theater. What is it like for you to surrender yourself to the creative process and make imaginations tactile?

It feels like I have a kind of radar. And the process of creation in me and is when I catch ideas with the help of this radar to embody them, that is when the idea comes into the material. I feel like a guide from the world of ideas to the world of things.

What makes you keep doing what you do? What is it about fashion and art that allures you to build such dynamism of craft and performance?

It's a combination of something beautiful and ironic, which is always something personal, perhaps from my dreams. It’s the clash within the surrealism. I think it's my own conscience.

If you were to give a collective theme to your work, what would that be? In the imaginary world of Venera Kazarova, what is yet to be discovered?

My work isn't wearable. Events I'd like to take part in it's my visual performances that would take place in different countries. I really want to do performances all over the world, not only in Russia.