b. 1995, Russia
Apollinaria Broche was born in 1995 in Moscow, Russia. She lives and works in Paris and in Pietrasanta. She graduated from ENSBA Paris atelier Anne Veronica Janssens in 2020. Throughout her sculpture and installation-based practice, Broche creates places of escape and retreat from the world that blur boundaries between the real and imagined. Incorporating bronze into her newest work—an addition made possible by the artist’s residence for the past year in the centuries-old artist colony in Pietrasanta, Italy— Broche highlights the dualities present throughout her practice: strength and fragility, nightmare and dream, personal and political, fantasy and reality.