Letta Shtohryn
Letta Shtohryn is a contemporary artist based in Malta working predominantly with moving image, installation, text, intervention and photography.
She was born in Ukraine two weeks after the Chornobyl disaster, which has been driving her interest in exploring causality and points of order/chaos transformation since a very young age.
Letta Shtohryn has got a background in Philosophy/Sociology (University of Vienna) and Photography (Art School Vienna). She completed her MFA at the University of Malta (2016) with a course onto a moving image practice. During her final MFA work, she explored metaphysical time - perceived on a small scale and compared to earth time, finding poetry in geophysical phenomena.[1]
"Growing up between uncertain East and ordered West my art practice is a result of conflicting experiences of both. In my art practice, I investigate the structure and nature of reality. Frequently my work has time as an underlying theme and examines our relationship to space - personal, legal or perceived. I also engage with realities that are at odds with each other, whether it's dictatorial narrative, witness statements, paradoxes or a material that claims to be not what it seems.
My work explores an area between states and between entities. I am interested in the space within a point of change from one state to another, in the point of stillness turning into chaos. The research of in-between states also extends to areas like the balance of truth and myth; asks questions about the real and the artificial; explores the ontological existence of objects and plays with the state between the digital and the tangible; as well as looks for space between comfort and discomfort.
Throughout its course, my art research has been informed by various scientific epistemologies from ontology, philosophy of time, metaphysics to social sciences shaping works that have an autobiographical experience as a starting point." Letta Shtohryn [2]
Art Residencies
- April 2018 and July 2018: AIR Wro residency (an exchange between Strefa Kultury Wroclaw and Blitz, Valletta) in Wroclaw, PL;
- August 2017: Roundabout.LX (Lisbon, PT);
- Novembre 2016 and May 2017: SIM Art Residency (Reykjavik, IC).
Exhibitions
She has exhibited her work at various art spaces and pop-up sites in Malta, Portugal and Iceland. For more information consult - Exhibitions Letta Shtohryn
External links
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