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Olga
(Russia, UK)
Koroleva
curator Ottica TV
co-curators Paul Malone
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Olga Koroleva was born in 1987 in Tula, Russia. Since 2004 she has been living
and working in London. In 2006 she completed a Foundation Diploma in Fine Art
Media at Chelsea College of Art and Design with a distinction. In 2010 she gained
her BA in Fine Art Time Based Media from Wimbledon College of Art. In June 2010
she received the Landmark Art Prize for her recent work. Her work has been shown
across a variety of platforms in the UK and Europe. She works across a variety
of media including writing, photography, video and sound.
www.olgakoroleva.com
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2010 Winterstory, Tranquila, Tel Aviv, IL / Act’n Go, Jerusalem, IL / Winterstory,
L’Atelier, Tel Aviv, IL / Inside the Box, Troubadour Gallery, Earls Court, London, UK /
Degree Show Preview, Wimbledon Space, Wimbledon, UK / 2009 Waiting Room,
Platform 1 Gallery, Wandsworth Common, UK (solo) / Q-Art Presents, APT Gallery,
London, UK / Recycled Frequencies, Wolstenholme Projects, Liverpool, UK /
2008 Reflections of Choice, Camberwell Arts Festival, London, UK /
Traversion. The Very Good Room, Shoreditch, London, UK
My practice is concerned with the subtle margins existing between fact and fiction,
theatrical and mundane, spontaneous and directed, and refer to everyday life as much
as they do to theatre and film theory. The margins can be interpreted literally, referring
to a margin as a physical border between countries, cities or buildings, or metaphorically
referring to prejudice that exists within our contemporary social mind.
Unbelievable is a series of video and photo works that originate from a recent trip
to Israel. The video is based on true stories of a life-long resident of Jerusalem, bearing
documentary value. The photographs, however, were selected for their unreal visual
quality. A bus stop is a place of arrival and departure and of constant movement.
This alludes not only to physical movement, but also social and political change.
It can be interpreted as specific to this country as well as extended to the issues
of global movement.
Olga Koroleva