Facets of Perception

About the exhibition

“Facets of Perception” explores access to art and the ways we can experience colour and form beyond sight.

The project began with a question: how can the sensation of colour be conveyed to someone who cannot see it? The exhibition invited visitors to trust touch and intuition, reconsidering their role as viewers through four stages of perception: detection, discrimination, identification and recognition.

Visitors could explore the works through touch, first with their eyes closed and then open. Soft and hard, warm and cold, smooth and rough materials became a language of their own, helping visitors recognise form and colour through physical contact.

The exhibition’s central work was the panel WICBFY (What Is Color Blue For You?), created during the ColLab residency at the Svod arts production centre of GES-2 House of Culture. During its development, Olga consulted a psychologist specialising in the perception of blind and partially sighted people.

The exhibition also included large-scale painting series and mixed-media works: vivid acrylic canvases, a ceramic tableware set conceived as an art object, and a wool rug. These different media were united by an interest in sensory experience, treating touch as a complete and meaningful way of encountering art.