Katinka K. Olrik
I use my art to give
votes for shadow sides and barn
them speak, but at the same time do
not let
they lead me astray through
the labyrinths of life. It pulls
you into a world of dualities,
where the shadow is not just one
dark reflection, but also a
important narrator of interior
truths.
Katinka K. Olrik (@katinka.olrik)
studies at Gerrit Rietveld
Academie in Amsterdam for art
and design. She works across the board
of media, including performance,
installation, video, sculpture
and painting. She explores
materials and lets them
incorporate into her works.
By exploring different
materials a conversation occurs
between Katinka and the material, et
cooperation where both parties have
impression on the process and the
finished product
expression. Conversation with
the material explores the consequences
of experiments and tests
who help to create it
finite expressions that allow themselves
to be led
of an inner force.
Katinka always starts by using
the body as a frame in its expression.
The body is the only thing there
follows us through life for each
single step, from the first
moment to the last second,
the body
is our shield, protection and home.
The body learns all our memories and
traumas that are stored in
the way we walk, stand and meet the world.
The body carries us and our memories
through life in one
constantly transforming state,
where we tear off our skin again and
again in a perpetual state of
metamorphosis.