Biography of Katya Berestova
Bio:
Born in St. Petersburg in 1992
Artist painter / graphic artist - self-taught, poet
Has been photographing since 2010.
Since 2017 began to shoot consciously, to develop directions that can be characterized as psychedelic photography, expressionism, the embodiment of subconscious images through reality.
2018 member of the Union of Artists "Solaris" 2018 a member of the Union of Photo Artists of Russia
2018 living in Moscow and practicing in different genres.
Since 2019 teaching a course on the subject "The Analytical Art of Composition".
In 2022 began directing films.
Continue to work actively in the studio and experiment with different techniques of expression.
Contact :
berestovaka10ka@gmail.com
Exhibitions:
2018- Joint exhibition of painting and graphics, with the writer Dmitry Ubyz "Broadcast of reality" Moscow
2018 - "FIXAGE" Central House of Artists (CHA) Moscow
2019 \ 2020 - "Leather" Gallery Zerno St. Petersburg
2020 - Exhibition of the finalists of the competition "Young Photographers of Russia 2020"
2020 - "Petersburg" Gallery Zerno St. Petersburg
2021 - "KOLOKOL" photobook ( Pierre Bessard editions / 200 copies ) Paris
2021 - "Black Square on the Other Side" Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts
2021 - Retrospective of the competition "Young Photographers of Russia 2010-2020" Kaluga House of Music
2021 - Portrait exhibition "You are a Creation" Festival of Russian Art Photography Serpukhov Museum and Exhibition Center
2021 - Exhibition of graphics "External \ internal" RGBM Moscow
2021 - "Festival of Russian Art Photography", ZERNO Gallery, St. Petersburg.
2022 - "Argus, photography among art" Winter Theatre, Sochi 2022
2022 - Foam Paul Huf Award Nomination 2022 Amsterdam
2022 - "In the style of Moscow modern" Nosov's Mansion, Moscow 2022
2022 - KOLOKOL exhibition within the framework of the MFR Museum of Fine Arts Kaluga
2022 - KOLOKOL Kaluga/Ryazan/Krasnoyarsk
2022 - personal exhibition LOVE'S SECRET FREAKS space F5 Noisegraph St. Petersburg
2022 -personal Exhibition WORLD UNDER THE CASTLE SPACE PLACE gallery Nizhny Tagi
2022 - collective exhibition "12/25" gallery ZERNO St. Petersburg
2023 - photo "DREAM N3" - "Print Gallery" St. Petersburg
2023 - "Argus, photography among art" Winter Theatre, Sochi
2023 - personal exhibition "Dream number" gallery SPACE PLACE gallery Nizhny Tagil
2023 - exhibition of the winners of the festival "Young Photography" Kaluga ICC
2023 - premiere of the short film "Telephone" cinema Karo Novy Arbat 2023 - collective exhibition "Life cycle. Tree" Veliky Novgorod, Kremlin park
2023 - collective exhibition "Game of Shadows" State Darwin Museum , Moscow
2023 - collective exhibition "Life cycle. Tree" Veliky Novgorod, Greenhouse, TREST space
I started taking pictures at school, in the last grades I took a Fed 2 camera from my grandfather (russian analogue of Leica), filmed something during travel, walks, etc.
I deliberately started filming in 2017.
Experiment with the image, shoot through polyethylene, glass, work with a portrait.
For me, this is a very important method of creation. Simplifying and freeing painting from the shackles of reality. Graphics and painting give opportunity to work exclusively with the subconscious, fantasies and images, while with the help of a camera you can create pictures along with the visible world.
A digital camera has generally simplified, accelerated and increased the amount of work. It helps to evolve faster and more efficiently on your creative path.
How did you get into photography?
I have been drawing since the age of two years, at the age of about 23 (now I am 30) my room began to turn into a workshop, at the age of 25 I actively began making portraits. I started to invite models, and now I continue. I like freedom and experiment.
I work in different techniques, collage, hand print, graphics, scanography, etc. the instrument and method of expression depends on the composition and its idea, sometimes a frame can become a poem or a melody. It is up to the artist to decide what is more appropriate and clear.
Inspiration .. a lot is inspiring me. Probably the most important thing for me in the picture is the presence of the eternal and the timeless. Of course, these concepts are abstract.
Necessary things for ne are - depth of knowledge, cultural and moral roots, anthropology of the image to it's source, not a superficial temporary mass media.
- How would you describe your photographic approach?
What am I trying to express with my work? Probably, this is faith and hope that human can be human. Hope for the light of enlightenment, for rationality, for the saving force of beauty and purity, a part of which is in everyone. And of course my work is a joint creation of my "I" and my life, our union - it gives the idea and strength, I return with gratitude. Such a process.
- Any influences/sources of inspiration?
A lot has influenced - starting from society and nature, ending with music and arts. Everything is important. But if you list the "isms": renaissance, expressionism, futurism (russian "Budetlyane") .....I don’t quite understand the question about the appearance .. Perhaps these are translation problems.
But if this is about my appearance, then I become my paintings, merge with them. It seems to me that this happens with every artist. After all, the body of the artist is like a bare nerve, always in the process and on the alert - grace, clothes, everything begins to behave poetically and expressing its insides, twisting with time.
