In the collection “The Other Places” the author examines the influence of memory processes on the multilayering of space. She uses photographs as a starting point and during the creative process she creates fictional environments in her works. By identifying the period they mark, a sense of recognisable areas is formed in urban landscapes or landscapes. However, cleaning up the environment by erasing a specific image in the background or covering the latter as if by hand-scraped graphite dust merges reality with an archive of the author’s personal experience and memory.

The Other Places

Immanent Portraits

Metamorphoses

My visual tale is an alternative reality for today's actuality, which is sick of populism, politics and pseudo-realistic images degenerate by television. It has a slightly different format, dimensions and parameters - from something totally mundane, commonplace and, perhaps trite, to unseen, unheard and unimaginable.
During the creative process i look for a new, different ways of visual expression and a wider range of measures forming compositions, with which I could express a mysterious, logic disobeyed, disregard, or even disavowal of principles of beauty. I try to give for my graphics a new spatial and temporal characteristics, to highlight what's close to subconsciousness, pseudo-reality, perverse imagination and uncertainty. While int

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