Katerina Belkina is a Russian photographer, who puts the 'selfportrait' phenomenon in a new setting. With unprecedented technical precision, Belkina uses the refined possibilities of digital photography in order to present a disquieting image of the new woman in a postmodern world. Her crystal-clear representations, which are at the same time of a strong pictorial character, are mainly aimed face-forward. This portrayal method strips the works of an anecdotal overtone and gives them the conceptual and abstract connotation of Russian icons. The idea put into a human form. Katerina Belkina is an artist who views man as a creature who looks for the boundaries of the connection with the universe by using soul and reason. Katerina Belkina was born in Samara, a city in the South-East of the European part of Russia. Gallery Lilja Zakirova was founded in 1996 and is located in a sixteenthcentury building in Heusden on the Maas, in the south of the Netherlands. The gallery represents contemporary Russian artists and thus places itself in the time-old tradition of perpetuating the cultural relations between Russia and the West. In doing so, the focus lies on New Media, Photography and postmodern painting and sculpture.
