Katya Sivers
Katya Sivers is a London-based artist and PhD researcher at Winchester School of Art, moving across screen, page and spatial forms. Situated between image-making, writing and curating, her practice occupies the joint where images, technologies and systems grind against one another; she is less interested in the picture than in its plumbing – the situations, hinges and mechanics that let an image be built, read, interrupted, and reassembled into something with a different temperature.
Her current research follows the image not as war’s residue but as one of its engines – the sheen of the broadcast frame, the cold telemetric stare of the drone, the sediment layered beneath both, each already rehearsing the war still to come. She reads backgrounds and surfaces diffractively, feeling for what has been pressed flat or buried, tracing how visual infrastructures organise attention and quietly manufacture the conditions of war. Archival photographs, contemporary digital imagery and drone vision are pulled into close, uneasy contact – not reconciled, but left to leak into one another – exposing the mechanics by which an image can reinforce or loosen power, or lay the ground for the next image to come.