Svetlana Ochkovskaya

Adapting To The New Reality Of Life After Lockdown

My works are fantastic and strange, explore ideas of identity, belonging and otherness: encouraging new perceptions of the world by taking the audience to a visual Other. 

Social interconnectedness offers human beings a sense of identity and a way to deal with their everyday emotions. The lockdown is a time of great anxiety and uncertainty. We feel the world has changed. Many people are stuck inside their homes and not able to visit other places. Everyday routines are boring, and it seems pointless to even do ordinary tasks at home. 

Through performance in the otherworldly sculptural costumes, I make familiar things unfamiliar: giving everyday experiences a new meaning, changing the way we perceive the things around us. I create a new fantastical world that offers an escape from the daily routine and our mundane way of seeing.