Video Art | 00:01:01 | 2025

HORSE BOKEH explores memory as a fragile process of reconstruction rather than a fixed archive. Within flickering fields of light, glare, water, and digital distortion, trembling silhouettes of horses emerge and dissolve—metaphors for memory’s elusive and layered nature. Through glitch, abstraction, and bokeh-like distortions, the work scatters light into unstable patterns reminiscent of neural microstructures that encode perception. Sound textures of ambient tones and distant calls evoke memory as atmosphere rather than recollection. Operating as a perceptual apparatus, HORSE BOKEH invites viewers into the shifting space where recognition falters and reformulates, revealing instability as the very mechanism through which memory persists.

Roza Khalikova is an artist exploring the boundaries of memory representation and the limits of visualization. In her practice, she constructs simulated laboratories where glitch, ornament, and rhythm become tools for investigating how memory continuously reconstructs itself between the personal and the collective, the bodily and the digital. Glitch signals loss, ornament imposes order, and rhythm reflects consciousness in motion—together forming a language of instability. Khalikova has participated in major projects including EXPO 2025 (Osaka) and Russkie Dikie at the Museum of Russian Impressionism and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (2025). Her works have been shown at NUR Media Art Festival and GLITCH.ART.BRAZIL (2024) and featured in the project Symphosynthesis: Retrospective at Zaryadye Park, Moscow. She studied at the Institute of Visual Arts IVART (Perm, Russia).