OLGA SUCHANOVA Artist photographer, in conversation about her practice.
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OLGA SUCHANOVA
Artist Photographer
In Conversation
DISCUSSING HER ARTWORK & IDEAS INFORMING PRACTICE
Sunday 23 January 2022
8pm - 20:00 GMT UK
Livestream!
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Olga Suchanova
Visual artist Olga Suchanova is an emerging fine art photographer and printmaker, whose work is inspired by art, science, technology and metaphysics.
Drawing inspiration from nature, the properties of matter and energy, and quantum mysticism, Olga reinterprets light, colour, pattern, and form using experimental photography, printmaking and painting. Her work questions notions of space, time, illusion, and reality.
Adopting experimental approaches, her work is focused on how the invisible can become visible.
Two of Olga’s images were shortlisted for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, for two consecutive years. 99 Suns in 2019 and Timeless in 2020, included below. This world class photography competition attracts over 4500 entries from 75 countries around the world.
99 Suns investigates the colours of the Sun to reveal and enigmatic phenomena in relation to the construction of knowledge and reality.
Suchanova experimented with primary colours and glow in the dark pigment, to create 99 photo etchings in different colours, combined to create a digital collage.
99 Suns Photo © Olga Suchanova
Timeless A landscape image captures the path of the Sun across the sky over a period of 3 month. The sets of arcs represents three months, with each tracing the Sun's path over the course of one day.
Timeless Photo © Olga Suchanova
Journeys 99 Suns detail Photo © Olga Suchanova
Journeys 99 Suns exhibition prints Photo © Olga Suchanova
Based in Thames Side Studios, London, Olga builds pinhole cameras which are carefully placed, to create images over extended periods of time. The resulting photographs playfully blur notions of reality, illusion, time and space.
I am a Slovakian visual artist and curator, based in London. My work lies at the intersection of light, space, time and energy. If we insist there should be things to be observed, these things come about through our constructing a reality we can know that is independent of our observing.
Chasing the Sun
For the ongoing project 'Chasing the Sun' I expose hand made cameras from one day to few years. I condense time and space with the lensless photographic technique called Solargraphy.
The image below was exposed for 3 month on the river Thames facing Canary Wharf in London from the Winter Solstice 2020 to the Spring Equinox 2021 as the outcome from my art science virtual residency 'Watching the Sun' in collaboration with the Mayes Creative @mayescreative and the Royal Astronomical Society.
Suchanova constructed pinhole cameras from empty beer cans, designed by Peter Saville for the Tate Modern, to make the solargraphs.
Chasing the Sun Photo © Olga Suchanova
Battersea Power Station Photo © Olga Suchanova
My newest solargraph, Battersea Power Station with the river Thames - 4 months exposure! 🙂
Pinhole Camera Photo © Olga Suchanova
EXTRA!
OLGA SUCHANOVA
Artist Photographer
Livestream Workshop
CONSTRUCTING A PINHOLE CAMERA FOR SOLARGRAPHY
Sunday 30 January 2021 8pm UK GMT
OLGA SUCHANOVA will be livestreaming the workshop directly from her Thames-Side, London studio.
This is a fantastic opportunity to see the artist at work. Olga will be sharing her expert knowledge at building and using a pinhole camera, ready for Solargraphy.
Olga's demonstration will apply the same processes used to construct the pinhole camera with which she produced her shortlisted image for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year at the Royal Observatory Greenwich in 2020.
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Website www.artistolgasuchanova.co.uk
On instagram @olgasuchanova01
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I was drawn to Olga’s work by her freewheeling, yet rigorous approach to experimental photography. The range of techniques, underpinned by a strong sense of visual narratives and styles caught my eye.
Olga's photographic practice is a journey of discovery, a voyage to alternate ways of seeing the world around us.
This will be a superb in conversation livestream, not to be missed!
Harry Fricker MA Gallery Director
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