HOW TO EAT AT NIGHT
Katerina Kouzmitcheva
Katerina Kouzmitcheva participated in the Mochnarte residency as part of her project How to Eat at Night.
In this project, Katerina Kouzmitcheva explores themes of distortion and the suspension of history in the context of totalitarian regimes, through the language of light, gesture, and presence.
The outcome of the project will be a video performance, visually and conceptually referencing the works of Jonas Mekas and Roy Andersson—where the human figure is embedded within the frame as a silent witness, and light becomes an autonomous bearer of meaning.
Katerina creates a minimalist, durational action, in which the body interacts with a projected surface: it observes, reflects, attempts to erase—yet only reinforces its presence. In doing so, she seeks to convey a delicate tension between appearance and disappearance, between truth and fiction.
The work reflects on the impossibility of touching history once it has been rewritten by propaganda, but also on the quiet, physical attempts to approach it, to sense what lies hidden beneath the surface.
︎︎︎ Katerina Kouzmitcheva ︎
︎︎︎ website
Katerina Kouzmitcheva is a Belarusian photographer based in Wrocław, Poland, working at the intersection of documentary and art photography. Her projects explore themes such as human interaction, political systems, memory as a force shaping identity, and issues related to femininity and gender roles.
Katerina holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Law, graduated from the Academy of Documentary and Art Photography “Fotografika” in St. Petersburg, and earned both her Master’s and PhD degrees in Fine Arts from the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław. She is currently continuing her studies at the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava, Czech Republic.
She is a winner of international photography competitions such as TIFA and BIFA and a recipient of the Gaude Polonia scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Katerina is a member of the international photojournalist collective Women Photograph. Her work has been exhibited in Arles (France), as well as in Brazil, Japan, Estonia, Hungary, and Poland. Her photography has been featured in publications including the British Journal of Photography, Bird in Flight, Monovisions, Dodho, among others.
In this project, Katerina Kouzmitcheva explores themes of distortion and the suspension of history in the context of totalitarian regimes, through the language of light, gesture, and presence.
The outcome of the project will be a video performance, visually and conceptually referencing the works of Jonas Mekas and Roy Andersson—where the human figure is embedded within the frame as a silent witness, and light becomes an autonomous bearer of meaning.
Katerina creates a minimalist, durational action, in which the body interacts with a projected surface: it observes, reflects, attempts to erase—yet only reinforces its presence. In doing so, she seeks to convey a delicate tension between appearance and disappearance, between truth and fiction.
The work reflects on the impossibility of touching history once it has been rewritten by propaganda, but also on the quiet, physical attempts to approach it, to sense what lies hidden beneath the surface.
︎︎︎ Katerina Kouzmitcheva ︎
︎︎︎ website
Katerina Kouzmitcheva is a Belarusian photographer based in Wrocław, Poland, working at the intersection of documentary and art photography. Her projects explore themes such as human interaction, political systems, memory as a force shaping identity, and issues related to femininity and gender roles.
Katerina holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Law, graduated from the Academy of Documentary and Art Photography “Fotografika” in St. Petersburg, and earned both her Master’s and PhD degrees in Fine Arts from the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław. She is currently continuing her studies at the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava, Czech Republic.
She is a winner of international photography competitions such as TIFA and BIFA and a recipient of the Gaude Polonia scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Katerina is a member of the international photojournalist collective Women Photograph. Her work has been exhibited in Arles (France), as well as in Brazil, Japan, Estonia, Hungary, and Poland. Her photography has been featured in publications including the British Journal of Photography, Bird in Flight, Monovisions, Dodho, among others.
