— too bold, too big, to far: Unrealized artworks become visible. Artists from all over connect.
While mobility is restricted, borders and distances are clearly perceptible and existential uncertainties
are omnipresent, more artistic works than ever remain in the state of planning. Whether it fails due to
lack of time, space or money or accompanies your artistic work for years as bold dream — we are looking
for your projects, which have not (yet) made it beyond their state as an idea, concept, draft or prototype.
With this exhibition we want to open up a space and visibility in terms of concepts, sketches, drafts, plans
and photographs. These papers will be presented at the art space BLECH. in Halle, Germany.
At the same time, despite current challenges and immobility, this format allows to present
and bring international artists together. Since many things cannot take place on location and in person,
there will be an online programm additional to the exhibtion. For an exchange and encounters, the
participating artists and their work will be presented and discussed on a digital platform.
— too bold, too big, to far: Unrealized artworks become visible. Artists from all over connect.
While mobility is restricted, borders and distances are clearly perceptible and existential uncertainties
are omnipresent, more artistic works than ever remain in the state of planning. Whether it fails due to
lack of time, space or money or accompanies your artistic work for years as bold dream — we are looking
for your projects, which have not (yet) made it beyond their state as an idea, concept, draft or prototype.
With this exhibition we want to open up a space and visibility in terms of concepts, sketches, drafts, plans
and photographs. These papers will be presented at the art space BLECH. in Halle, Germany.
At the same time, despite current challenges and immobility, this format allows to present
and bring international artists together. Since many things cannot take place on location and in person,
there will be an online programm additional to the exhibtion. For an exchange and encounters, the
participating artists and their work will be presented and discussed on a digital platform.
Kateryna Repa
ABOUT
Kateryna Repa was born in 1979, Odessa (Ukraine). Graduated from Odessa Hydrometeorological University. Lives and works in Odesa.
Works with painting, graphics, media art, sculpture and art objects. She also participates in personal and collective exhibitions in London, Berlin, Italy, USA, South Korea, Ukraine etc. Works are in private collections.
She participated in the Falling Shadow project in the gardens of Giardini at the 58th Venice Biennale and G’ART Fair Seoul South Korea, as well as in the jury of international art competitions in Israel and Russia. In 2020, she was awarded the third International Prize “Leonardo da Vinci” as a universal artist in Florence.
In 2016, she published a printed and electronic book, The Adventures of Lucinda. Participated in the open Eurasian creative festival. Nominee of the National Literary Award "Writer of the Year 2015". In 2019, she was awarded the Alexander Pushkin medal, and founded the eponymous brand of women's clothing and accessories.
STATEMENT
In my works in the field of painting, sculpture and media, I touch on the topic of ecology and the impact of human consumption on it, as well as the types of its consequences for the environment and us.
In graphics, these are different manifestations of the human essence, such as it is, in my opinion, at the given moment of development.
I also touch on the topic of evolution and its manifestations, linking it with technologies and their influence, as well as with possible themes of their manifestation. Therefore, in the project "Evolution" I touch upon the topic of possible teleportation, linking it with rapid development and penetration into all aspects of human activity, creating my own reality one after another and superimposing it on the real world, inviting the viewer to plunge into my alternative reality, in which imaginations intersect my literary works and visual designer of clothes and accessories.
We asked ...
How has the situation changed your creativity in the last months?
She became more conscious. I believe that all my works and projects are part of one main project.
What do you, as an artist, think that you cannot embody a work of art?
I think that based on my sketches and their descriptions, the technologies of the future will be able to implement them.
Do you think there is a project that is best never done? Why?
Sometimes I think that if I really succeed in realizing my teleportation project, then what consequences it can bring to the world and humanity. He will "shoot" or "defend". And it worries me, maybe there should be nothing in this world.
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