Throughout her sculpture and installation-based practice, Apollinaria Broche (b. 1995; Moscow, Russia) creates places of escape and retreat from the world that blur boundaries between the real and imagined. Working primarily in bronze and ceramic, Broche highlights the dualities present throughout her practice: strength and fragility, nightmare and dream, personal and political, fantasy and reality.

Drawing inspiration from art history and fairy tales, Broche crafts strange, fanciful landscapes populated by fantastical flowers and shape-shifting mythical creatures in a  practice that is informed by a host of visual sources. From this confluence of established symbols and references, Broche constructs immersive dreamscapes and escapist universes that operate according to a logic known only to the artist.