The memories of boats Painting

Ekaterina Golubina, artist and curator, was born in USSR in 1977, several years lived in London, studied technique “photorealism” in private studio. She makes painting, works with social projects, creates interactive installations in alternative spaces, using a combination of new materials with building recycling materials of the Soviet period. Over the past two years after the end of Goldsmiths and the return to her hometown, Ekaterina introduced local people that educated on the aesthetics of socialist realism with public-art in abandoned and neglected spaces. Through participation people received experience of development of urban spaces. In her projects she raises a series of relevant and urgent questions that put to the test and open up notions of histories, materialism, mobility, borders, freedom and control. Ekaterina works with formal and informal organizations local and international level, takes part in forums, conferences and seminars. At the moment, she is staying at Vadsø residency and focusing on developing project, which will take place at summer festival "Varanger" in Vadso.