Olga Karyakina

karyakinaGraduated from the Moscow State University of Printing Arts in 2006. Works in various fields – graphic arts, environmental design, and art interventions in public spaces. Regular participant in shows in Russia, Italy and the United States. Solo shows: “La Blanca” (2012, flour mill, Maravatio, Mexico), “Cucina Futurista” (2010, Art Academy restaurant, Moscow).

«La Blanca»
While I was in Mexico I had an acute sense of my foreignness and conspicuousness. The “La Blanca” installation was a means to visually express the feeling of being an alien, a person on show. I set up the space as a light installation. The space was an abandoned flour mill, consisting of a suite of rooms cov­ering an area of approximately 120 square meters. I made a hole in the roof through which light en­tered the room. At noon the light formed precise rectangles. These rectangles started to move across the floor and at a certain point combined with flat geometric shapes on the floor, which repeated the rectangular shape of the sunbeams. They were made of local, natural materials – flowers, feathers, leaves. The culmination was a moment of complete alignment of the sunbeams and floor shapes, and at that moment the space of every room was vividly colored. The highlighting of the floor shapes con­veyed my impression of being the subject of attention. My installation was organized as a path among the suite of rooms, symbolizing travel in a foreign country.

Olga Karyakina


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