Methods of Art – Archive of Artists Interviews

I can say, that being an artist is my profession, the same as being an illustrator or being a designer.
And, perhaps, I do it, because I can, because I know how to do it and because I like it. This is my way
to communicate with the outer world. I have this certain egoism that I want to express myself the
way I want, I do not want to adjust to someone so they could understand. But the thought that
everything is perceived as a beautiful picture or illustration makes me look for different ways. Art has
an investigational function. Sometimes, it scares me, how investigational the function of the art is,
because on different stages of life it reviles certain limits: limits of consciousness, limits of society,
social and moral norms. Once in a while it really scares me, but it is interesting.

Natalia Pastukhova / Intention

Bio

*1985 in Sverdlovsk, Russia. She received a diploma in product design at the USAAA and a bachelor degree in design at the University of Huddersfield. Natalia is an active participant of the street art community in Yekaterinburg, and works in various media, which varies from objects to monumental graphics. A themes of animal, ornaments and geometric motifs are dominant in her work. Her first city piece was created in 2003 within the framework of the festival „Long Stories of Yekaterinburg“. Natalia worked in several countries, such as Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan etc.

http://sweatergallery.ru/natal-ya-pastuhova/

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Credits

Interviewed by: Johannes M. Hedinger

Filmed and recorded by: Alexander Kiryutin, Alexander Petkov

Edited by: Alexander Kiryutin, Alexander Petkov

Transkript by: Daria Koltushkina

Set producer: Anna Litovskikh

Produced by: 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial Of Contemporary Art Ekaterinburg, Russia

Special thanks to: NCCA, Pro Helvetia, Sweater Gallery, Com&Com