Olga Feshina at her exhibit New Tech Girls - VR Friends in Google New York January 18 2019
The practice of Olga Feshina operates as a conceptual field in which the perception of reality is approached as a continuously reconfigured environment requiring structure and direction. Working at the intersection of painting and digital media, she examines the behavioral and psychological impact of technology on contemporary consciousness. Her key bodies of work — Egg as a symbol of the Internet, New Tech Girls, and Inner Child — trace the tension between technologically conditioned modes of self-presentation and pre-digital states of perception. Feshina focuses on repeated gestures, stylized imagery, and moments of suspended self-observation — “frozen” states in which the subject becomes visible as something constructed through interaction with devices, interfaces, and layered visual culture. Within this framework, she presents OverEnlightenment as a consequence of oversaturated perception shaped by technological and media conditions. Her work unfolds as a structured field where internal states transform into behavioral patterns and reappear as external images and gestures.
With a background in fashion and costume design, her practice maintains a focus on silhouette, surface, and the external “shell” of identity. She studied at the Alma-Ata State Theatre and Art Institute (AGTHI) following early training in painting and photography in Karaganda. Since 2013, she has lived and worked between Almaty and New York. Her work has been presented at Google (New York), NYA Gallery and Gallery 104 (Tribeca, New York), the Shchusev Museum of Architecture (Moscow), as well as within projects associated with Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia (Moscow). Feshina’s work has been featured in W Magazine, Wallpaper*, FAD Magazine, ELLE, Harper’s Bazaar, L'Officiel, Flacon, and Style.