Ekaterina Demenina

@arte_obscura Ekaterina Demenina

My name is Ekaterina Demenina and I’m a Moscow-based visual artist, Fine Art photographer. Received an MA degree in Art History. As a photographer and video director, I work with musicians. Under the pseudonym Arte Obscura I launched a personal project «Still Lifes». Still life photography for me is a way to stop and take a breath in the era when time is flashing like a blurry landscape in the high-speed train. Still life is a metaphor for still time. The picturesque features of photography and the photographic nature of painting are the themes I constantly explore. I like to confuse the viewer whether it is a photographic artwork or a painting and prefer to call my still lifes “photopaintings”. “The Dutch Still Life” is the hommage to the XVII century Dutch and Flemish mas-ters. The series represents the results of my striving to “wash out” the boundaries between contemporary photography and the Dutch Golden Age painting, to erase the time gap.

Nowadays it is very hard not to find your path but to be heard in the informational ocean. The non-contemporary art is not in trends so galleries and art dealers are not interested in my works which seem to be outdated. But in the fast changing times a «today» will be outdated tomorrow.

Winter In Hokkaido

Size: 50 x 70 cm

Moon Night In The Wheat Field

Size: 50 x 70cm