Visual artist Olia Katkova Follow.Art Card

About me

In my work I use images of everyday objects and spaces. I’m drawn to their closeness and their ability to hold emotions and memories hidden from plain sight. As I observe them, their reality starts to shift — people vanish, and a quiet emptiness takes over.

Last summer, I sat in a garden with artist and architectural theorist Alexander Rappaport, looking at a stone barn. He told me, "See how still and solid the stones in the wall are, how much they have seen and remember. You can't capture that just by drawing a stone after a stone."

This feeling is what I am trying to grasp. It often is connected to home, childhood, presence and absence, or loss.