At this exhibition there’ll be presented works from “VDNH”, “Portraits”, “About Strange Life of Things”, “Flowers In the Garden” series. Exposition consists of forty landscapes, portraits and still-lives, devoted to thoughts on transience of time, its visual expression. “The works are built on a cinematographic principle and sound like music etudes. Some of them bear a feeling of anxiety and understatement, dragging loneliness, others are filled with light, coziness and warmth of bygone days. With the help of a photo camera the author records ephemeral substances, insusceptible to human feelings, transforms them into prosaic and common things, belonging to material world”, this is how Maria Koleva, an art critic, characterizes Olga Lebedeva’s work. Olga Lebedeva was born in Moscow in 1969. She graduated from the Graphic Design faculty of Stroganovskoye college. She worked in advertising agencies and publishing houses as a designer, art-director. Since 2003 she’s been actively practicing photography. She’s been participating in exhibitions from 1991. Here’s what the author herself says about her passion:
“The magic of photography opened to me in childhood, when my dad didn’t come out of the bathroom for hours and let in “visitors” very carefully. I was looking with fascination at an image appearing “from nothing”, sometimes he allowed me to help him, to turn a white sheet of paper back and forth.
When I was about 15 years old, I started to take photos of everything, I bought a Zenith photo camera with my first institute scholarship. I was crazy. However, after the institute I was entirely taken up by my profession, and only some time after, when I’d already exhausted my interest in advertising business, I again saw in photography a lively, real, amazing, true, direct contact with this world. And this is what inspires me now”.
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