Natalia Petrenko
Natalia Petrenko is a photographic artist and a life coach based in Peramangk land (Littlehampton), South Australia.
Natalia has a degree in mechanical engineering, but her desire to help people through the visual art has led her to study photography and life coaching over the last fifteen years.
Born in Germany to a Russian-Ukrainian family, Natalia studied engineering and photography in Moscow, Russia. She spent almost ten years of her professional career working for the Sochi Olympic Project 2014 as a project coordinator, eventually deciding to pursue her passion for photography and coaching.
Natalia's focus is to make art practical. Through her work, she helps people connect better with themselves and nature and heal what is ready to be healed. Working primarily with natural light, she creates an atmosphere highlighting her subject and connection with the environment with uniqueness and insight.
Natalia’s installation "A Woman" attempts to place the visitors in a space where they will reunite with themselves and possibly find an answer to who or what a woman is.
The first part of the work invites the public to explore what gives strength to women through portraits of eleven females from around the world.
These series of photographs portray the modern international woman, allowing each visitor to add their paint strokes to the communal vision. It brings to the surface their beliefs based on personal experience and sense of themselves before.
the second part of the work, where the public is offered to go deeper and experience their mind state beyond these beliefs.
In the second part of the exhibition through the guided meditation, the artist is creating a space of "nothingness" for women to explore themselves separately from social roles, perceptions and even the female physical body.
It brings personal thoughts and feelings onto the viewer's body and mind, observing them from the supervisor's point of view while concentrating on a sense of oneself beyond.
Experiencing nothingness is one of the most challenging things to do. That is why an artist makes sense of her presence to guide the public through this process to answer existential questions:
Who/What am I? What am I doing here?
Natalia has a degree in mechanical engineering, but her desire to help people through the visual art has led her to study photography and life coaching over the last fifteen years.
Born in Germany to a Russian-Ukrainian family, Natalia studied engineering and photography in Moscow, Russia. She spent almost ten years of her professional career working for the Sochi Olympic Project 2014 as a project coordinator, eventually deciding to pursue her passion for photography and coaching.
Natalia's focus is to make art practical. Through her work, she helps people connect better with themselves and nature and heal what is ready to be healed. Working primarily with natural light, she creates an atmosphere highlighting her subject and connection with the environment with uniqueness and insight.
Natalia’s installation "A Woman" attempts to place the visitors in a space where they will reunite with themselves and possibly find an answer to who or what a woman is.
The first part of the work invites the public to explore what gives strength to women through portraits of eleven females from around the world.
These series of photographs portray the modern international woman, allowing each visitor to add their paint strokes to the communal vision. It brings to the surface their beliefs based on personal experience and sense of themselves before.
the second part of the work, where the public is offered to go deeper and experience their mind state beyond these beliefs.
In the second part of the exhibition through the guided meditation, the artist is creating a space of "nothingness" for women to explore themselves separately from social roles, perceptions and even the female physical body.
It brings personal thoughts and feelings onto the viewer's body and mind, observing them from the supervisor's point of view while concentrating on a sense of oneself beyond.
Experiencing nothingness is one of the most challenging things to do. That is why an artist makes sense of her presence to guide the public through this process to answer existential questions:
Who/What am I? What am I doing here?
