honorable mention
Katerina Belkina germany
title
Repast
It is allegory of the life cycles. Cyclicity perfectly characterizes humanity and our perception of time.
The Morning (childhood) – acquisition and accumulation. At the beginning of our life, we get our basis and potential from our family and the society we live in. We learn to see beauty around us, to feel – all this things we use and spend the rest of our life. Even if from the outside it seems a rather scanty breakfast, it surely brims with all the immaterial treasures: love, fantasy, discoveries, sharp feelings. The colors are milky, the stuffing – excessive. The memories of mother’s milk are still fresh. Yellow of orange juice is a symbol of concentrated emotions, taste of life, sincere joy and children’s energy. A lemon or an orange are symbols of an unquenched thirst. The thirst for action, knowledge and discoveries.
The Day (youth, adulthood) - creation, destruction, giving. Meat, color red are symbols of life and sacrifice at the same time. A period of spending. Some build, others destroy. There is a natural balance. Yet, all of us sacrifice at this stage of our life. We give. Good or bad.
The Evening (old age, completion) - contemplation, calm. A meditative part. Scantiness of supper doesn’t mean scantiness of life or poverty. The table is set for one. We come alone to the end of our life, yet we are one-on-one with the divine, merging with this world.
The full description you can find on my website: www.belkina.ru
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entry description
Triptych: „Repast“It is allegory of the life cycles. Cyclicity perfectly characterizes humanity and our perception of time.
The Morning (childhood) – acquisition and accumulation. At the beginning of our life, we get our basis and potential from our family and the society we live in. We learn to see beauty around us, to feel – all this things we use and spend the rest of our life. Even if from the outside it seems a rather scanty breakfast, it surely brims with all the immaterial treasures: love, fantasy, discoveries, sharp feelings. The colors are milky, the stuffing – excessive. The memories of mother’s milk are still fresh. Yellow of orange juice is a symbol of concentrated emotions, taste of life, sincere joy and children’s energy. A lemon or an orange are symbols of an unquenched thirst. The thirst for action, knowledge and discoveries.
The Day (youth, adulthood) - creation, destruction, giving. Meat, color red are symbols of life and sacrifice at the same time. A period of spending. Some build, others destroy. There is a natural balance. Yet, all of us sacrifice at this stage of our life. We give. Good or bad.
The Evening (old age, completion) - contemplation, calm. A meditative part. Scantiness of supper doesn’t mean scantiness of life or poverty. The table is set for one. We come alone to the end of our life, yet we are one-on-one with the divine, merging with this world.
The full description you can find on my website: www.belkina.ru
about the photographer
Early on Katerina Belkina (*1974) knew about her exceptional talent to see the world through different eyes. Born in Samara in the southeast of European Russia, she was brought up in an creative atmosphere by her mother, a visual artist. Her education at the Art Academy and the School for Photography of Michael Musorin in Samara gave her the tools to visualize her ideas. Exhibitions of her sublime, mystic self-portraits ensued in Moscow and Paris. Katerina Belkina was nominated for the prestigious Kandinsky Prize (comparable to the British Turner Prize) in Moscow in 2007. She won the International Lucas Cranach Award 2015 and the prestigious Hasselblad Masters Prize in 2016. Currently she lives and works in Werder (Havel).back to gallery