Elizaveta Ostapenko
Title: Some say we have no time to stand and stare
Material: Acrylic on dibond,90x66 cm
Year: 2022

About:
Is the everyday fast city rhythm can be frozen and prolonged through time? How architecture can be de- and reconstructed to form new relationships with a viewer? These questions inspired research focused on fragments of time and spaces in the urban environment.
The paintings at the exhibition are part of the series “Some say we have no time to stand and stare”, and are produced with acrylic on dibond sheets. As a foundation for the painting’s motives, distorted and manipulated photographs of the artist’s sculptural works are used. The photographs are made in a slit-scan photography technique which allows the creation of a 2D panoramic projection of a 3D object on a surface.

Bio:
Elizaveta Ostapenko (*1999) is a visual artist based in Hamburg, Germany. She studied Fine Art at BHSAD Moscow and is currently a student at the HFBK Hamburg at the class of Pia Stadtbäumer. Elizaveta’s practice builds around questions of documentation and deconstruction of the everyday architectural environment. She explores the ways of looking at city surrounding from a less familiar point of view, focusing on the processes of preservation, transformation and movement. How can these processes be frozen and prolonged throughout time? How ordinary viewpoints can be destabilised and form new relationships with scale and perspective? Elizaveta produces works inspired by these questions experimenting with painting, printmaking and photography, as well as with sculptural techniques.