Methods of Art – Archive of Artists Interviews

I just hope, that what I am doing will be interesting for someone and will communicate something
to them. It is somewhat amusing: you cannot live without doing it, but an artist also has a mission,
social responsibility for what he says, why does he do so. It is the pleasure that you get from the
process. The desire to share, to attract attention to something, to interest in something, to show
something beautiful or something horrible. To feel the uniqueness, to earn money, after all, since it is
a professional activity. The desire of fame, of some feedback. A little bit of everything. I cannot point
out just one thing. I am a human being after all. I think that art does have a function. It is the top of
Maslow’s pyramid, being the highest necessity of a person. Sometimes I think that one can live
happily without it. People that I know, my grandmother, for example, can survive perfectly well
without it, by means of other forms, such as television. She doesn’t feel bad about it. But it is
commonly believed that a painter has the function to say something, to attract attention to a topic,
be honest, to investigate, todiscover something.

Ekaterina Poedinchikova / Intention

Bio

*1985 in Kamensk-Uralsky. She is a graduate of the Art and Graphics Department of the Nizhniy Tagil Pedagogical Academy. She was participant in several international group exhibitions, as well as various contests and festivals. Ekaterina also has had a number of solo shows. Her artworks can be found in various corporate and private collections, and in Yekaterinburg State gallery of contemporary art.

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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 Ekterinburg, Russia

Special thanks to: Sverdlovsk Film Studio, NCCA, Pro Helvetia, Com&Com