Fine Art nominee

Triptych: „Repast“

It is allegory of the life cycles. Cyclicity perfectly characterizes humanity and our perception of time.

"Early Breakfast"
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.

"The Dinner"
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.

"Late Supper"
The Evening (old age, completion) - contemplation, calm. A meditative part.

Early on Katerina Belkina 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 as painter at the Art Academy and from 2000 at 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. In 2007 Katerina Belkina was nominated for the prestigious Kandinsky Prize (comparable to the British Turner Prize) in Moscow. Recently she got the Hasselblad Masters Prize. Currently she lives and works in Werder (Havel) near Berlin.