Arina Lukasheva is a 21-year-old artist born and raised in Moscow, Russia. Currently, she's a BA student at the University College of Arts in London and her major is Fine Art. Mainly her artistic practice is based on philosophical discourses frequently touching childhood memories, investigation of archives and collective memory. Her latest projects involve redefining the concept of escapism in current realities and retrospecting personal and collective anchives of photographs. "My art practice always begins with reflection and rather intimate experiences that sprout into more profound and complex questions. At this point in my formation as an artist, I concentrate on archival photographs of my family and my hometown. I explore my family roots, reinterpreting my childhood through the lens of present-day reality. I tell a story that is rich in its symbolism and open for independent Arina works with a range of media that includes oil painting, analogue photography, installation and ceramics. She does not confine herself to a specific visual language, using those expressive mediums that are most appropriate for her ideas. Arina also cooperates with private collectors and young curators. She has organised and participated in 2 exhibitions in London, «Resetting in the New Hight» and «Stitch». Her current project (Liminal Memory Place ) is focused on the research of childhood memories, archives and the generation of the 2000s in Russia. The project consists of a series of paintings, an analogue animation, the installation and a book, in which the author reveals the subject of the research and raises questions of self-identity, as well as the identity of the generation of the 2000s.