Three questions to Katya Kopeikina
Katya has been working for 5 years as a tattoo artist and in recent years she has been focusing her practice on painting and sculptures. She took part in residence on Fabbrica del Vapore within the project “How you dare?” in Milan, with curators Alina Kleytman and Sergey Kantsedal in the exhibition with her performance on QUEERSTORIES_UA_PL in Lublin (Galeria Labyrinth). Took part in a collective exhibition in Kyiv in Voloshin Gallery ”LOOKING INTO THE GAPS” and did a performance about refugee “Bag stage” in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Warsaw.
A strong vibe of childhood innocence one may perceive from Kateryna’s works conveys a playful yet deeply nuanced approach. That playfulness, however, invites the viewer to look at the complicated subjects of adulthood from a completely different perspective. Kateryna’s intentionally harsh and unpolished style deliberately invokes your primordial fears, the darkest secrets of your fantasy, often hidden from the eye of a bored connoisseur. Its uncompromising honesty leaves no space for sophisticated manipulation while opening the door for facing one’s true self—as insecure and lonely as it gets. Pointing her cracked mirror at sexuality, romance, desire, and power, Kateryna tells the story of a child who plays their own game to avoid getting played.
by Kateryna Serdiuk
What are the main questions that bother you at the moment?
Where is my money? This is the first :) The second is what small steps I can take to ensure that the next generations do not live in a totalitarian regime and do not have to face it.
What do you fear?
I am afraid that I will never be able to see my relatives who live under Russian occupation (and this is all my family), and that I will not be able to help them when they need it.
Where do you get the courage to do what you want?
It comes from the fear that I won’t be able to do something I want to do. My courage is a force that can move my ass and give me a huge surge of positive hormones. But most importantly it’s a test of interest. If I really see that there are some prospects and I’m excited about them, then the courage will appear as I proceed. If the courage required to make the next steps won’t break through, then I shouldn’t proceed anyway.
And often you don’t need courage, most of all you need an understanding of how to do it and a plan!
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