I make the invisible visible.
Hi! I’m Kislova 21 y.o.Student at HSE Art and Design School, Comics profileI work with sequential storytelling, photography, zines and printed matter.My practice sits between personal narrative and formal experiment: I look for the moments when a constraint (speed, distance, silence) becomes the method itself.I have hands-on experience with book layout, typesetting and print production — from preparing files for offset and risograph to working with paper, binding and small-edition runs.I am open to commissions and collaborations in editorial illustration, comic projects, zine publishing and visual storytelling for print and digital.
Contacts
Mashina XeniaMoscow, Russia / Tiraspol, Republic of Moldovatelegram channel — @kislova_art telegram — @kskislova email — ksen.kislov@yandex.ru
Three projects. One principle.
Each work follows the same narrative architecture:
Problem → Idea → Solution → Results
by a detour.
*в объезд.
An anti-travel journal. Photographs taken from a moving car.
PROBLEM
I could not stop. The road forced continuous motion. Landmarks, faces, the «main» view remained forever outside the frame.
IDEA
Turn the limitation into the method. Make the peripheral — fog, road markings, fields, mountains — the only available image.
SOLUTION
A series of deliberately blurred, sideways photographs. The viewer inherits the same forced blindness.
RESULTS
An anti-travel journal that documents speed, absence and the impossibility of arrival rather than destinations.
bead
*бусина
Comic biography. Not about what was given away — about what was received.
PROBLEM
How to tell a life story without reducing it to loss or sacrifice? The conventional biography focuses on what was given away.
IDEA
Invert the narrative. Make the comic about the new gaze, the overcoming of fear, and the impulse toward growth that remained.
SOLUTION
A comic biography structured around reception rather than renunciation. Visual language that holds both vulnerability and forward motion.
RESULTS
A complete comic-biography module that reframes personal history as a site of gain — new vision, courage, and self-directed change.
Hometown
*Родной город
Zine. The first time far from home — and the discovery that the city had already settled inside.
