About the author
Ksenia Fedorova (2005, Kurgan) is a poet. Laureate of Vox Catoblepae 2025. In her practice she explores how technologies influence our perception of the world and the place of the human in the era of digital transformation.
Biography
Born in Kurgan, she became interested in poetry in childhood. In middle school she moved to Tyumen and for a long time lived between two cities.
In 2023, she entered a joint BA program of the School of Advanced Studies at the University of Tyumen and Don State Technical University.
She currently researches technologies and human–machine interactions. In her studies, she seeks answers to how technologies influence and reconfigure the “sensorium”1, and what it means to be Human in the contemporary world.
Artist statement
Artist statement
Being sincere is the only principle I follow in my poetry.
In academic work, I seek an answer to the question “What is a Human?”, and in creative work, “What does it mean to be human?”. Very subjective, unpolished, raw — but sincere.
For me, poems are a mirror of perception, a documentation of inner dialogue and sensations. I want to show everything that makes me feel and be sensitive. It is a display of vulnerability, which, to me, largely reflects that “humanity” I am trying to find in both professional work and art.
Awards
- Vox Catoblepae 2025
Contacts
Footnotes
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Sensorium — the human sensory system, the complex of sense organs (sight, hearing, smell, touch, and others) considered as a whole. ↩