Ekaterina Adelskaya:

 

"In Trees Fell, Waters Blackened  I apply the earliest known pigments in human history, namely ochre and charcoal, on modern industrial polyester fabrics. My textile sculpture is painted with handmade pigments and carved by fire, where the burnt fabric hardens and transforms into a plastic lace, blurring the boundaries between painting and sculpture, natural and man-made, ancient time and the contemporary world.

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The artwork’s physicality lead to a particular sensorial experience, aestheticising the fragility of life.

 

I invite the audience to reflect on whether this is the time when technological progress increases the cross-contamination of the environment with synthetic particles (pollution, micro-plastics in human tissues, coral bleaching); or wether this is a new age of adapting, gene changes and unknown life forms"