Katerina Belkina. My Work Is My Personal Theatre
- Year: 2020
- Language: English
- Publisher: KOCMOC
- ISBN: 9783948174057
- Page: 252
- Cover: hardcover
- About the Book
When viewing Katerina Belkina’s paintings, you cannot discern what medium you are looking at — photography or painting. Using a digital brush, the Russian artist lends her photographic images a weightless and dreamlike atmosphere that elevates the image to an expanded, altered reality. In doing so, she creates a unique genre of her own. The trilingual (German, English, Russian) illustrated book — „Katerina Belkina — My Work Is My Personal Theatre“, which has been released on October 15th by KOCMOC Publishing Space, presents for the first time the artist‘s work in an art-historical context.
People — primarily women — have always been the centre of Belkina’s work, where she casts herself simultaneously as the subject, the director of the mise-en-scène, and the artist. Led by feminist principles, she shows everyday life from a female perspective, whereby she portrays the woman as an object but, above all, as energy. In her series „Not a Man‘s World“, she presents herself smoking a pipe and raising her index finger with self-confidence. Belkina, however, does not want to denounce, but instead seeks answers to the question: who is she as a woman, an artist, a mother, or a member of society?
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