Natasha Yudina, the artist: “Well, it’s cold in Siberia, that’s true. Most of the time we have winter, which lasts and lasts. The climate is extremely continental. There is a great need for everything warm, dear and cozy. Everyone needs to walk in a sweater. That’s where my knitting comes from. The first thing I’d knitted was a Kremlin wall. It was a background for the miniature toylike Kremlin created on a 3D printer. It’s a metaphor for the homeland, like the good old sweater you keep wearing all your life until the end.

I also knitted my grandmother. She has never been in Moscow. I decided to knit her portrait and bring it to Moscow, thus having materialized grandmother’s dream.

Then I knitted Gagarin, president Putin and Santa Claus. This is the triptych called “The Sweater’s Circumincession”. It is something of a local “Icon shelf”, like my dad has in the village: a calendar with a head’s of administration portrait, the Blessed Virgin and the old faded Gagarin postcard.

There is also Freud, which I gifted to a psychology school. They opened a psychological center in in the Russian province the village. I think they also have lack of warmth over there. So let psychologists get warm from knitted Freud”.

More info: natasha-yudina.wix.com

Gagarin in the airport

Knitting in Siberia

Putin

How to use it

Santa Claus

“The Sweater’s Circumincession”

Kremlin

Kremlin wall construction

“My Kremlin”

Knitting Kremlin in Siberia. Video

Granny in Moscow

Granny on the exhibition in Gridchinhall gallery

Knitted Freud

Freud and psycologist

Freud. Small size

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