Tender. Watercolor. 

Katya uses photographs as the basis for her watercolor works; she intentionally modies gures and fragments of bodies using collage and computer graphics. The large-scale watercolors are obviously the result of delicate, long and painstaking work. Watercolors can evoke a wide range of emotions in the viewer simultaneously, among them pleasure, attraction, even disgust. Nevertheless, these sets of opposing forces are in a certain balance.

 

Excerpt from the curatorial text by Anzhela Popova, written for the exhibition “The Fleeting Light on Your Folds (Part 2)”, Voskhod Gallery, Basel, 2024