Born in Moscow, Margarita Gluzberg has lived and worked in London since 1979. Her practice ranges from painting and drawing, usually on a gigantic scale, to performance and sound installation. From the subject of boxing, to the history of consumer culture and how it affects human relations, Gluzberg creates a visual territory from historical, autobiographical, and literary references. Her recent project, The Captive Bird Society, centred round early recordings of birdsong, generating a wider investigation into the story of phonography, and the apparatus of capture. Always interested in the structures of desire, Gluzberg has recently begun a series of paintings based on the three Michelin star dishes of Alain Ducasse. Constructed entirely in black, they depict mystical matter: still-lives in the tradition of Dutch vanitas paintings - for the 21st century.
