Katia Pugach was born in Sevastopol in Crimea when it was part of

the Soviet Union.

Here she kept her studies and started a personal artistic research that

led her to live and work in Los Angeles in the United States, then in

Paris in France, and today in Moscow, Russia.

Her artistic research questions first of all the value of a work of art

and living as an artist today. His works are not merely objects of art,

but experimentation and research for a place where to live that sense

of religious unity and depth that can be found in the Orthodox

churches.

Her works always appear as a kind of secular miracle, a tension of

forces that miraculously find a new balance, stones that should not

stand up, plants that grow upside down, pure white mushrooms

sprouting from the rubber of used tires.

Here the artist is a kind of medium, creator of a work not defined

once for ever, but a real ecosystem, a living organism where aesthetic

values are part of a process that involves the environment, time, the

life of the artist and people who come to watch the work.

A subtle work, marked by desire for communication, contact, care. An

alternative ecosystem that involves aesthetics and nature,

adaptability, practical knowledge passed down for centuries with the

latest technologies. In the pictures, in paintings, installations, Katia

Pugach always try a different perspective that involves the actual

experience of the beholder, his installations are events, made to

involve, her incredible sense of ' balance requires us to believe in

what we once believed impossible. This is the role that art should be

for the future, a kind of secular religion where gather, treat, put

together as much of the authentic that even we can find.

In DEJAVU a crop of mushrooms emerges among the mesh columns

of used tires. The rhythm of the columns evokes the classical temple,

you enter a space where other laws apply, the light is that of the holy

place. Here we celebrate the sacredness of life, the ability to resist

everything to regain possession also of what it should exclude it. A

stunning setting, an aesthetic choice that turns radical aesthetic

values inherited from classical principles in life. Through care and

time, at any moment seems to say that a work of art is always a

miracle, unfathomable, like life itself. Every form of life is perfect, as it

has always been there, while it is the result of a constant, loving, care,

genuine intuition.