artist statement
"The young woman does not engage with the creation of ephemeral romantic drawings or watercolours but confronts rather rigid forms, she is not afraid of mixing techniques and materials. Therein her creative beginning is expressed. I was very interested in observing how she took great photographic series, and then rushed to create something in bronze. In Svetlana's work, genres sustain each other. Findings, which she used in photography, and which seemed to belong exclusively to the specifics of this art form, were suddenly and unexpectedly transformed into bronze. Svetlana is care free in relation to the material used. The materials are tamed" Natalia Sergievskaya (curator, Garage Centre for Contemporary Art Moscow) about Svetlana K-Lie's work.
The young Russian artist expresses her bold feminist markmaking through a broad range of materials and techniques, ranging from bronze or stone to graphite and paper, from sculpture and ceramics to printmaking, collages and photography. Her work excels within the tension she initates between body and material; she savours the resistance of the steel as well as the fragility of the paper. He current practice explores the social status of the woman and the representations and symbolisms of her body.