ARTIST'S STATEMENT. OLGA NEFF. Artist. Visual, Music, Poetry

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

ARTIST'S STATEMENT. OLGA NEFF. Artist. Visual, Music, Poetry

At the core of my practice lies an exploration of the chronotope — the unity of space, time, and personal optics as a living structure of experience. I am interested not in fixed reality, but in its vibration, its inner oscillation — the moments of shift and disintegration of the visible, when perception becomes sensual and unstable.

I work with photography and video, moving beyond mere documentality. Multiple exposures, shooting through glass, reflections, and refractions make it possible to see how reality stratifies and turns into the breathing of light. Through the materialization of the image, I create a space of shared experience where perception is born from the interaction of light, memory, and the body.

Space for me is a state of consciousness, time is a trace and a return, and optics is a third dimension — a filter through which the structure of experience reveals itself.

I feel close to the logic of David Lynch, where the conflict between the real and the illusory exposes the inner tension of perception and turns the visible into a riddle. Like him, I aim not to explain, but to create a field of ellipsis, which the viewer enters as a co-participant.

Inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s notion of the “infrathin” — that almost imperceptible gap between states and things — I explore borderline optical conditions, where the image appears on the threshold between the visible and the imagined. Through optical instability, I seek not a reflection of the world, but the very process of seeing — fragile and alive, like light within time.

ARTIST'S STATEMENT. OLGA NEFF. Artist. Visual, Music, Poetry
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