Room #207 (2025) Mounted Print - Ekaterina Bazhenova-Yamasaki

Room #207
27 in x 40.37 in, Gloss
C-Type print
2025

Edition of 1 - mounted on 10mm foamboard

As part of a six-part interrelated installation for STANDALONE, this print is one of three photographic prints (Shiro, 2020, Lotus, 2018 and Room #207, 2016) and three glass ritual arrows (Shiva, 2025, Durga, 2025 and Duality, 2025).

Together, these works investigate the intersection of symbolic archetypes, bodily subjectivity, and ritual materiality through a psychoanalytic lens. The project is situated within a broader inquiry into the construction of meaning through embodied practices and the visual economy of personal mythologies. The inclusion of three glass ritual arrows extends the inquiry into sculptural and haptic domains. The photographs and sculptural elements articulate a vocabulary of symbolic transformation and self-mythologisation. This practice positions itself within a lineage of contemporary art that seeks to reconcile the affective and the theoretical, the aesthetic and the ritualistic. It resists closure in favour of ambiguity and resonance, privileging the cyclical over the linear, the liminal over the resolved. The work ultimately proposes a space for visual contemplation and conceptual inquiry, one that privileges multiplicity, uncertainty, and transformation. 

Artist Info:

The Los Angeles & London-based interdisciplinary artist explores mediums from photography, video, and experimental sound. Drawing on her in-depth knowledge of cinema and literature, she explores these disciplines as philosophical expressions, weaving their references into her artistic practice. Her music practice focuses on elements such as noise, drone, and psychoacoustic phenomena.