Eva Ostrowska aka Ostrov, was born in 1989 in Paris, France. She is both French and Ukrainian.
She graduated in fine arts from L’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Bordeaux and the Sorbonne University in Paris.
She has had no permanent home for the past 6 years. She travels frequently from place to place choosing an area to live for several weeks to several months to create new works.
Her work is a mosaic of narratives that mixes her own autobiographical life with art performance and photography. She mostly shoots in 35mm film.
Eva Ostrowska’s photographs have appeared in various international publications. Her self-published artist book “Ma petite Chérie” 2016 is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York ( MoMA) and into the Franklin Furnace Archives of Brooklyn, New York.
About ‘Summers’:
‘I was born on the summer day, June 21st. Summers have always exerted such a hold over me. I have been so captured by it, inspired by it and haunted by it.’
‘Summer’ is a romantic summer reverie. The series had been thought as a piano sonata.
It’s a palette of frozen memories shot in the 2015 and 2016 summers. I played with flash lights to create the rhythm of a sonata’s three movements song: ‘adagio sostenuto’ ( slow and sustained), ‘allegretto’ ( a little quickly) and ‘presto agitato’ ( very fast and agitated.)
Nostalgia is omnipresent with a bitter sense of lost happiness.
