Olia Fedorova – multidisciplinary сonceptual artist working with photography, video, installation and text. Born on 11 Feb 1994. Based in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Statement:

My practice is focused on the exploration and interaction with environments as semantic spaces.

I take the thing out of the environment in which it has some meaning – and transfer it to the other one, where it loses this meaning, but is filled in with the new ones instead. At the same time, I watch how the environment continues functioning, how it changes itself to refill the voids that left. Thus I study the mechanisms and problematics of sense-formation, language and communication, along with the properties of different environments, and ways of interacting with them.

Along with that, through text practices I fill in my own voids, trying to speak out where it is customary to remain silent. I write about what bothers me, what makes me sad, ashamed or afraid, breaking foremost my own silence, and also calling others to speaking out and dialogue.