Olga Volna

Lives and works in Voronezh, Russia

Artist statement

Olga Volna, professional artist from Russia, Voronezh Sphere of artistic interests: painting, collage. Collage. Main topics: abstraction. Stylistics: abstract expressionism, author's technique - metamorphic collage (recycling of resources, rethinking the properties of source materials). In my artistic practice I explore abstract expressive collage - a unique author's development at the intersection of abstraction, collage, philosophy, psychology and esotericism. As an artist I am concerned about the relationship between spiritual and material, physical processes and subtle vibrations. I constantly ask myself questions: why do souls come into physical bodies? What kind of experience should I get from being on the planet Earth as a separate person? What life lessons should we receive as a mankind as a whole? From these searches and collages are born: abstract - so that nothing is attached to familiar images and expressive - to preserve and convey the depth of their emotions. My relationship with collage is ambiguous. On the one hand it's a question of control: only I decide what the research theme will be, what the visual language of the project will be, as if I were creating a world with its own laws of beauty. On the other hand, it's an absolute trust: in the material, in my own intuition, in a certain divine force that makes possible the act of creation itself. I explore the materiality of this world through the transformation of what has already been used, and the...

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