About

Hi, I’m Alina Kupershtein. I create dolls.

Here you will find my characters, their forms, and the stories of their making.

My dolls do not decorate a space. They inhabit it. They are not meant to be played with, but it is possible to find a way to interact with them.

I am not interested in beauty in its conventional sense. In each piece, I look for harmony. Often, it is a harmony of opposites. A point of balance between the beautiful and the grotesque, the frightening and the tender, the dark and the life-affirming. As in the human psyche, there are always contradictions within the doll.

An image does not always come together at once. Sometimes it becomes clear quickly; sometimes it requires returning to it years later. A doll is never truly finished. At a certain point, I simply stop.

Each doll is made by hand. Through sculpture, painting, costume, and construction, I bring a character from the realm of ideas into the material world. This process is slow but necessary.