About

Adamska Elizaveta Rakhilkina is an award-winning transgender Russian filmmaker and photographer based in Brooklyn, who holds a BFA from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and an MFA from the University of Washington. Their work has been exhibited throughout the USA with such highlights as Allouche Gallery (NYC) and Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), as well as Academy Award, BAFTA, and Canadian Award-qualifying film festivals. 

Adamska's artistic work exists in the chasm between two empires — Russia and the United States of America, and their colonial pasts. In their visual work, both photographic and video, Adamska gallops through eras and genres but is constantly preoccupied with unpacking notions of eeriness and nostalgia while transforming flesh with moving images, creating worlds of unbridled desire and disrupting rigid structures of pharmacopornography and cis-heteropatriarchy that are both deeply embedded in the structures of both countries they consider home. Deeply interested in state-sanctioned surveillance, reactive conformity, and topographic portraiture, Adamska has collaborated with artificial intelligence, such as Chat GPT, and Midjourney. 

Their visuals hurt so bad but feel so good.