Arts Thread

Natalia is a London based artist originally from the South of Russia. For the art projects Natalia uses her extensive collection that includes antique costumes, armoire, military uniforms, cameras, photographs, posters, accessories, toys, ritual objects, and crockery. Her work tends to be multilayered and to have various encoded meanings using symbolisms of objects and colors.The subject matter of Natalia’s work is founded on political and cultural issues experienced through the phenomenon of collective memory triggered by the objects. Natalia is always intrigued by the paradoxes of visual illusions and the tricks that our minds can play on us. Our eyes, hearts and brains never cease in their attempt to resolve the puzzle of the visual world. It fascinates her that on a micro as well as a global level the world is multi-layered and is never what it appears to be. Rara Avis In Terris Nigroque Simillima Cygno or The Black Swan is the most recent work from the series The Future is Bright. The work was inspired by the Black Swan theory that was developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.