i'm varvara pekhota and i'm excited about things going wrong, blurriness and digital uncertainty,,,
@varvarapekhota
2026: group exhibition ‘You’ve reached the center. Please hold’, ArtEZ finals, Arnhem; group exhibition ‘Digital Alchemy’, @ Dokzaal, Amsterdam; group exhibition ‘What I did last summer’, @ Rietveld Pavilion, Amsterdam; 2025: group exhibition COMPUTALA, Leicester; window exhibition ‘[sickly{sweet}(de)composing’, @ SWSW69 Arnhem; 2024: Media Arts Festival , Arnhem; 2021: group exhibition ‘Lines of Communication’, @ Pennlab Gallery, Moscow;
(2023)
a camera as a pov, a solar eclipse as a deep manifestation of a pov
solar eclipses are extremely rare and place-dependent. you need to happen to be in a specific patch of land at a specific time to be able to experience one
contemplating this, Lisa and i trained an stable diffusion lora based on grainy images from my nokia, and generated images of solar eclipses that my phone would never see. now we have an imaginary archive of a person who did